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No, I’m not talking about Alan Keyes. Turns out John McCain might be headed to blood banks to round up some ready cash.
“The campaign has raised only $3.7 million to date for the quarter,” a longtime, influential friend of the Arizona Republican told The Washington Times.
“The hope was to reach $4.5 million, about a third of what was raised in the ‘disastrous’ second quarter,’ ” said the McCain supporter, who has access to the senator’s daily campaign operations.
The figures he cited — although anything but rosy — mask the even worse state of the campaign’s finances, said the source, speaking on the condition of anonymity to protect his relationship with the senator.
“Those are gross numbers, not net,” the friend said. “Plus the campaign is carrying $2.5 to $3 million in debt. [He’s] done for.”
For context, Ron Paul raised an equivalent amount in the 2nd quarter.
And then there’s Freddie, whose Tragical Memory Tour hit a major roadblock to his effort to woo social conservatives. Seems that Dr. Dobson is as unimpressed as… everyone else.
According to a private e-mail obtained by the AP, influential evangelical leader James Dobson told friends he will not be backing Fred Thompson’s candidacy for president […]
Said Dobson: “Isn’t Thompson the candidate who is opposed to a Constitutional amendment to protect marriage, believes there should be 50 different definitions of marriage in the U.S., favors McCain-Feingold, won’t talk at all about what he believes, and can’t speak his way out of a paper bag on the campaign trail?” Dobson wrote. “He has no passion, no zeal and no apparent ‘want to.’ And yet he is apparently the Great Hope that burns in the breasts of many conservative Christians? Well, not for me, my brothers. Not for me!”
That’s two down, only eight to go for Keyes. Keyes! He’s got 621 signers to his “Pledge For America’s Revival”! That’s more votes than he got in Illinois in 2004!
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I blame the gay sweaters. We all know McCain does.
[…] to calculate his exact campaign viability. However, a Washington Times article (pumpkin tip to The Right’s Field) provides a bleak picture: “The campaign has raised only $3.7 million to date for the […]
McCain is crash landing and Thompson is yet to take off.
Dobson has said good things about Romney but, as we all know, evangelicals are split on whether they can support a Mormon and Dobson doesn’t want to support Romney and lose some of his evangelical muster unless he sees it as his only chance to have some pull in the White House. Dobson is hoping someone with Thompson’s polling numbers and Romney’s financial power will jump into the race — not going to happen. If that doesn’t happen, he will continue to softly back Romney. If Giuliani gets the nod, Dobson and many of his friends will stay home in November 2008.
Despite what I wrote above, my sources in Clinton’s camp tell me that they are more afraid of Giuliani than anyone else on either side of the aisle — he’s a fighter who has appeal on her turf and she doesn’t want to have to put up a fight for California, New York, New Jersey, etc. November ‘08 is still far enough away that its anybody’s election. Oh yes, what about Nader? Bloomberg? Oprah anyone?
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Is Dobson playing some strategy here — like trying to push Gingrich into the race, or, I don’t know, start a Draft Virgil Goode movement — or is he just ornery and impatient like so many Republicans looking at the field? He already said he won’t vote for Rudy or McCain, and I can’t imagine Romney fires his jets. Pardon me for stating the obvious, but James Dobson at home on election day is a bit of a problem for the GOP.
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September 20, 2007 at 3:12pm