The combination of CPAC and a reduced feeling of urgency delayed this for a couple of days, but here are the numbers for January. Short version: RNC over DNC, effective ties (as in, less than 10K/20K differences ) for the Congressional and Senatorial committees, and the Democrats retain their cash-on-hand advantage.
| Raised | CoH | Debts | |
| RNC | 10.53 | 9.48 | 0.00 |
| DNC | 9.19 | 10.20 | 4.68 |
| NRSC | 5.01 | 10.65 | 0.00 |
| DSCC | 5.10 | 13.00 | 0.83 |
| NRCC | 4.50 | 4.13 | 0.00 |
| DCCC | 4.69 | 18.32 | 1.33 |
| GOP | 20.04 | 24.26 | 0.00 |
| Dem | 18.98 | 41.52 | 6.84 |
Not all that different from last month’s, although the DSCC & DNC are both probably grateful that revenues were enough to cover for the Scott Brown debacle. The question remains how relevant all of this is: in the last month the ratio of House seats at-risk for the parties has gone from 40D-to-10R to 53D-to-6R. The Democrats’ extra House money will come in handy as emergency funds; but I have to wonder how many emergencies they’re going to have by October. Right now, it looks like… a lot.
Moe Lane
PS: I repeat myself:
If it hurts too much, try Reverse the Vote! Specifically targets 24 Congressional Democrats in Red districts, goes straight to the general election candidates, the national committees don’t see a dime.
Crossposted to Moe Lane.
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Can we just eliminate the "debt" line for the D's?
Darin_H (Diary) Wednesday, February 24th at 10:15AM EST (link)They’re never going to pay them of apparently.
A visionary coward says that anger can be power, as long as there’s a victim on TV – Flat Top, Goo Goo Dolls
Obama
jackquil36 Wednesday, February 24th at 11:34AM EST (link)A year ago Barack Obama promised jobs … but his plan has failed to deliver,
Democrats might be breaking out the champagne to celebrate the stimulus’s one-year anniversary, but Americans are still losing their jobs, while being saddled with debt to pay for Obama’s binge spending and broken promises
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Two out of three aren't bad!!!!
walter_hanson Wednesday, February 24th at 12:04PM EST (link)One little comment if you look at those numbers. The Republicans hold the edge on two out of those three.
* The national party not only out raised the Democrats (not a good sign for the Democrats), but the net cash on hand is on our side.
* The senate funds I have to give the edge to the Republicans. As MA showed the Democrats dumped in far more money into a Democrat state and couldn’t win. Nationally where states are more in balance this means that their money edge won’t help. And I think this is important. Not only is Bayh gone a state they expected not only to win, but not to have to spend a cent on the Democrats who were already going to have to dump lots of money into one high price media state (Illnois), might be forced to dump money into California and New York. One of the keys to their strategy in 2000 was in three states where they might have to dump money (WA, MN, and NY) they didn’t have to. The Democrats had a good year in part because of that. This year we apparently have already won two states without having to dump in a cent Delware and Arkansas. We can give money to help target other states.
I think the NRCC is paying a price because of Dedi. Maybe it’s time to let them off the hook for what was a mistake by the New York Republicans who gave them Dedi.
Walter Hanson
Minneapolis, MN