NYT: McCain to Rely on Party Money to Match Obama

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Pivoting toward the general election, Senator Barack Obama is turning again to his history-making fund-raising machine, which helped to anoint him as a contender against Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton and then became a potent weapon in their battle for the Democratic nomination.

To confront the Obama juggernaut, Senator John McCain, whose fund-raising has badly trailed that of his Democratic counterparts — and whose efforts suffered a blow this weekend when a key fund-raiser, Tom Loeffler, resigned because of a new campaign policy on conflicts of interest — is leaning on the Republican National Committee.

Mr. McCain is likely to depend upon the party, which finished April with an impressive $40 million in the bank and has significantly higher contribution limits, to an unprecedented degree to power his campaign, Republican officials said.

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/19/us/politics/19donate.html?hp

I like the sound of this. McCain drains resources from the RNC that would have otherwise gone to Congressional races.

[Muttocracy]

1. so what's the opposite of coattails - an unraveling sweater? nt

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2. excellent!!!! more seats in congress for us!!!!

it's way too optimistic to thing 2/3 majority in both houses, but i'd take huge majorities in congress over the white house any day.

of course, we're on track to get both healthy majorities in congress AND the white house, so i'm very optimistic. cautious, but very optimistic about our outlook!!