05-06-2004, 09:48 AM
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Junkie
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Originally posted by Superbelt
Because it sounds good? It's inspiring.
Do you have any statistics either way that the democratic 527's are outspending their republican counterparts?
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http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn...2004Mar23.html
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"We find ourselves in a much more competitive situation than we had reason to think we'd be in a year ago," said Jim Jordan, Kerry's former campaign manager, who is advising several of the Democratic groups, including the Media Fund. "It's increasingly clear that Democrats will have enough money to stay competitive and be heard throughout the spring and summer. We're not spending as much [as Bush] but we don't have to. We just have to spend it in the right place."
As Lansing showed last week, the impact of outside groups can be substantial.
According to an independent expert and a Media Fund analysis of campaign ad spending in 17 swing states, Bush was actually reaching fewer people with his ads in several key markets than the combined Democratic effort. For example, the president was advertising at more than twice the ad level of Kerry alone in Des Moines -- but at only half the rate of all the Democrats once the Media Fund and MoveOn commercials were added in. The president also was behind in several populous regions of Ohio, Pennsylvania, Maine, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, West Virginia and Wisconsin.
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Republicans have held off forming 527s, although strategists expect conservative-leaning groups to form them if the FEC declines to inhibit the Democratic groups.
Evan Tracey, chief operating officer of TNSMI/Campaign Media Analysis Group, an Arlington firm that tracks ad spending, said Democrats and Republicans are about equal in their spending now, "but the $150 million question is how long [Democrats] can sustain" their fundraising. "One thing that's certain in all this is that Bush has money in the bank and the potential to keep raising it."
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Last edited by onetime2; 05-06-2004 at 09:52 AM..
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