In campaign money race, Democrats vastly outpacing Republicans

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In campaign money race, Democrats vastly outpacing Republicans

By Matea Gold, Philip Rucker and Anu Narayanswamy at the Washington Post

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/in-campaign-money-race-democrats-vastly-outpacing-republicans/2015/10/15/794a1ee4-7352-11e5-8d93-0af317ed58c9_story.html

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The Democratic presidential contenders dramatically outpaced their Republican counterparts in the race for campaign cash last quarter, spotlighting how the parties are taking divergent paths in their pursuit of 2016 funding.

The emphasis by Hillary Rodham Clinton and Bernie Sanders on raising money directly for their campaigns has helped them amass large donor pools critical to generating the estimated $1 billion each party’s candidate will need to raise by Election Day.

While GOP candidates put an intense focus early in the year on raising huge sums for independent groups, many have had less success in attracting smaller donations that are the lifeblood of campaign operations, campaign finance reports filed Thursday show.

The risk of the big-money approach was underscored by the modest $13.4 million raised over the summer by former Florida governor Jeb Bush, who earlier this year was expected to be a financial powerhouse. Just $877,000 came from donations of $200 or less.



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[tecelote]

1. GW was managed by Cheney and they knew he was just a figurehead

Today's republicans are just nuts. They scare themselves.

That's why there is only one clear winner for the corporate owned media. Hillary.

Hillary will be pro-business and pro-war. She's bought and paid for.

The problem though, is that she is not a puppet. With Hillary, we do get a strong leader.

But, a status quo leader.

Bernie obviously shakes them up.

This is a rare opportunity to really make change happen. Bernie will lead a revolution.

Go Bernie!

[yeoman6987]

2. Nothing new. We always have more campaign money then the republicans

[tecelote]

3. Yes. But, the media was never so gung-ho for one candidate.

You can not deny that the media are all pushing Hillary.

[yeoman6987]

4. I agree. It is obvious. Maybe they feel bad for her. I don't know.