Obama outspending McCain 4:1

[Born2bwire]

Originally posted by: Farang
ACORN has donated nothing to Obama's campaign and he has 3.1 million people who have donated to his campaign, the average donation of which is under $100. Personally I like a leader who can rationally take a look at a situation and not "stay the course" after seeing the obvious advantage in changing plans.

I would have thought a little less of Obama if he did not make such an obvious play. Taking the public financing is not that big of an issue for me considering that he is getting most of his donations from small donors. Obama is a smart politician. He consistently makes smart decisions regarding political strategy, especially when it came to the primaries. For better or worse, the president needs to be a good politician if he is going to be an effective policy maker.

 

[FuzzyBee]

Originally posted by: shadow9d9

Originally posted by: ProfJohn
The bigger story is the fact that despite spending 4-1 and having an economy that sucks and a very unpopular President Obama is only winning by 5. He should be killing McCain.

It isn't a story though... and you know that... In the hick states of America, voting for a black is unthinkable. Play it down if you'd like, but there is a ton of racism in the "red" states.

"A black." Nice.

 

[Engineer]

Originally posted by: FuzzyBee

Originally posted by: shadow9d9

Originally posted by: ProfJohn
The bigger story is the fact that despite spending 4-1 and having an economy that sucks and a very unpopular President Obama is only winning by 5. He should be killing McCain.

It isn't a story though... and you know that... In the hick states of America, voting for a black is unthinkable. Play it down if you'd like, but there is a ton of racism in the "red" states.

"A black." Nice.

In places like Eastern Kentucky, currently polling 92% for McCain and 8% for Obama, "black" is indeed a nice word (realatively speaking).

 

[soccerballtux]

Originally posted by: Born2bwire

Originally posted by: Farang
ACORN has donated nothing to Obama's campaign and he has 3.1 million people who have donated to his campaign, the average donation of which is under $100. Personally I like a leader who can rationally take a look at a situation and not "stay the course" after seeing the obvious advantage in changing plans.

I would have thought a little less of Obama if he did not make such an obvious play. Taking the public financing is not that big of an issue for me considering that he is getting most of his donations from small donors. Obama is a smart politician. He consistently makes smart decisions regarding political strategy, especially when it came to the primaries. For better or worse, the president needs to be a good politician if he is going to be an effective policy maker.

if by good politician you mean weaseling liar, then yes.

 

[AstroManLuca]

I think you should cry some more.

 

[ayabe]

Originally posted by: soccerballtux

Originally posted by: Born2bwire

Originally posted by: Farang
ACORN has donated nothing to Obama's campaign and he has 3.1 million people who have donated to his campaign, the average donation of which is under $100. Personally I like a leader who can rationally take a look at a situation and not "stay the course" after seeing the obvious advantage in changing plans.

I would have thought a little less of Obama if he did not make such an obvious play. Taking the public financing is not that big of an issue for me considering that he is getting most of his donations from small donors. Obama is a smart politician. He consistently makes smart decisions regarding political strategy, especially when it came to the primaries. For better or worse, the president needs to be a good politician if he is going to be an effective policy maker.

if by good politician you mean weaseling liar, then yes.

Raise more money then, oh wait you can't, because your candidate doesn't inspire anything except hatred.

When that's your platform, you shouldn't expect people to poney up, McCain just sucks, better luck next time.

 

[jman19]

Originally posted by: ProfJohn
The bigger story is the fact that despite spending 4-1 and having an economy that sucks and a very unpopular President Obama is only winning by 5. He should be killing McCain.

I guess you missed the last two elections, or are completely unaware of how close to even this country is split politically.

 

[TraumaRN]

Well apparently Obama spent approximately 84 million in Sept and has 134 million on hand for October/November

 

[BAMAVOO]

Talk about this.


37,000 donations possibly from foreign currency

 

[jonks]

Originally posted by: BAMAVOO
Talk about this.


37,000 donations possibly from foreign currency

I tried to find a link to this "story" from a non-rightwing nutcase site but am having trouble...got anything? I'll even take fox news or wsj or chicago tribune.

 

[PELarson]

Originally posted by: BAMAVOO
Talk about this.


37,000 donations possibly from foreign currency

You do realize that some US citizens live abroad and use the local currency!

But, heck if the McCain campaign can ask Russia for donations....

 

[ayabe]

Originally posted by: BAMAVOO
Talk about this.


37,000 donations possibly from foreign currency

Yes, it's all Hamas, thanks for the link.

We need to make sure the drive-by media picks up on this, we won't let these terrorists co-opt the rest of us who are still pro-america.

 

[Toasthead]

Originally posted by: Stoneburner

Originally posted by: MustISO
I'm sickened by the wasted spending going into both campaigns. I would love to see a 1 million dollar cap on presidential campaign advertising.

That'd be hilarious. They would haveto basically run an ad consisting of, "I"m ___ and I approve this message" once a week in saturated media markets like death valley.

Which would be a REAL SHAME since the Ads tell us SO MUCH about the positions and substance of the candidates! :roll:

 

[kamiller42]

If the republicans were floating in this kind of cash, I wonder how many Obama supporters would be wailing about the presidency being purchased. "Purchased, not elected!"

The greater issue here is how Obama made a pledge and broke it. Why? Because he is looking out for #1, himself. What pledges will he break while in office in order to defend his interests? I am sure Biden has some ideas about that.

 

[Red Dawn]

Originally posted by: ayabe

Originally posted by: soccerballtux

Originally posted by: Born2bwire

Originally posted by: Farang
ACORN has donated nothing to Obama's campaign and he has 3.1 million people who have donated to his campaign, the average donation of which is under $100. Personally I like a leader who can rationally take a look at a situation and not "stay the course" after seeing the obvious advantage in changing plans.

I would have thought a little less of Obama if he did not make such an obvious play. Taking the public financing is not that big of an issue for me considering that he is getting most of his donations from small donors. Obama is a smart politician. He consistently makes smart decisions regarding political strategy, especially when it came to the primaries. For better or worse, the president needs to be a good politician if he is going to be an effective policy maker.

if by good politician you mean weaseling liar, then yes.

Raise more money then, oh wait you can't, because your candidate doesn't inspire anything except hatred.

When that's your platform, you shouldn't expect people to poney up, McCain just sucks, better luck next time.

McCain picking that intellectually unqualified Fundie Nut Job as his running mate helped Obama with contributions.

 

[imported_Quasar]

Obama broke no pledge!! Fact!! Most of Obama's money comes from people like me and you. I sent him 100 dollars. I heard over 685,000 Americans sent him about 86 dollars each, in the last month. Most of McCain's money came from special interests, BIG MONEY donations.

 

[DisgruntledVirus]

Originally posted by: OneOfTheseDays
The nation is probably more polarized now than it ever has been. No candidate will sniff 400 EV's IMHO for quite some time.

Unless something changes in the politicians we have had to pick from.

I believe the last two elections were not "anomalies" as PJ states, but were so close due to the lack of either D or R to bring forth somebody the people believe in. Somebody that the people actually WANT.