The GOP is pulling way out in front in political cash. First portents of a big victory next year for GWB and Karl Rove?
First we learn that cash flows could stymie South Carolina's presidential primary, which is supposed to take place in seven months, because the cash-strapped state Democratic Party doesn't have the money to pay for it. The most recent state filing showed the Democrats had only $288.93 in their bank account, well short of the required $450,000 to hold the primary. Now we've gotten hold of the current Federal Election Commission June quarterly filing for net cash on hand for the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, or DCCC, in Washington — $514,677. Compare that sum with that of the National Republican Congressional Campaign Committee, or NRCC, $5.43 million.Posted by Alan at July 1, 2003 10:16 AMIn the previous month of May, the NRCC raised $8 million, compared with the DCCC's $1.5 million. As for a yearly comparison, the NRCC thus far in 2003 has pulled in $39 million in contributions to the DCCC's $10 million. No wonder congressional Republicans are handing their Democratic rivals a new "3-D" theme of alliteration: "disengaged, depressed and destitute."
via the Washington Times