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Oh, no. More political maps inciting violence!

They even explicitly used the word ‘targeting!’ Those awful Republicans!

…Oh, wait, that’s a DCCC map. Dated February of this year. Look at it fast, before they sanitize.

Verum Serum has much, much more; including one more Democratic map from 2004 (which includes the perfectly nonviolent phrase ‘Behind Enemy Lines’). Look, I know that the DCCC pulls in its personnel from the shallow end of the Democratic Party’s political gene pool these days, but surely they can at least check first the stuff that gets babbled by Van Hollen, yes? This kind of language has a long history to it, and given that yet another Republican office has been vandalized (this time in Michigan), I think that it’s time that the Democrats start cooling their inflammatory rhetoric suggesting otherwise…

Moe Lane

Crossposted to RedState.

Reviewing the February 2010 Fundraising numbers.

Well, well, well. Short version? All three Republican national committees raised more than their Democratic counterparts for the first time in… well, a while.

A while.

	Raised	CoH	Debts
RNC	7.69	9.46	0.00
DNC	7.42	10.74	3.72
NRSC	4.60	12.86	0.00
DSCC	4.00	14.30	0.42
NRCC	5.08	6.06	0.00
DCCC	4.35	19.82	0.67

GOP	17.37	28.38	0.00
Dem	15.77	44.86	4.81

Continue reading Reviewing the February 2010 Fundraising numbers.

Reviewing the January 2010 fundraising numbers.

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

Continue reading Reviewing the January 2010 fundraising numbers.

Reviewing the December Fundraising Numbers.

It’s that time again. Short version: RNC above DNC, DNC took a big cash on hand hit, NRSC over DSCC in the biggest shocker, NRCC/DCCC more or less the same, DCCC has a big CoH advantage, and blessed if I know how much any of this means, post-Citizens’ United and post-Brown.

	Raised	CoH	Debts
RNC	6.84	8.42	0.00
DNC	4.54	8.67	4.69
NRSC	4.10	8.30	0.00
DSCC	3.40	12.50	1.20
NRCC	3.21	2.67	0.00
DCCC	3.81	16.69	2.00

GOP	14.15	19.39	0.00
Dem	11.75	37.86	7.89

Continue reading Reviewing the December Fundraising Numbers.

Old Narrative: DCCC cash advantage = No GOP gains.

New narrative:

The DCCC’s cash advantage is, at the moment, an important circuit breaker for 2010. For all the factors that point to big GOP House gains, it is the cash disparity could mean the difference between a bad year for Democrats and a really bad year.

At this rate, by June we’ll be hearing how the DCCC’s cash advantage will at least keep the GOP from having enough votes to override Obama’s vetoes next year.

Moe Lane

PS: Do I seem insufficiently anxious and resigned to failure? Well, it might be because I know a trend when I see it. Or maybe it’s because I’m currently on the right side of a 4-to-1 seat defense ratio. Or maybe it’s just that we watched the Democratic party pour quite a lot of money down a hole in Massachusetts.

PPS: More serious question: does the Citizens’ United case make monthly looks at fundraising totals more or less irrelevant? It just got a lot easier to fund promising candidates, on both sides.

PPPS: In a truly just world, there would be another announcement of a Democratic retirement this morning.

Crossposted to RedState.

Reviewing the November Fundraising Numbers.

It’s that time again. Short version: the RNC & NRSC beat out their Democratic counterparts – which is odd, considering that they’re the groups giving the Republican base the most aggravation; the NRCC pulled in less than the DCCC; the Democrats have a pretty good COH advantage (although the RNC spent a bunch of money in November); and the Democrats apparently aren’t planning to retire their debt.

	Raised	CoH	Debts
RNC	6.38	8.75	0.00
DNC	5.94	13.19	4.93
NRSC	3.30	7.30	0.00
DSCC	3.00	11.30	1.70
NRCC	2.34	4.35	2.00
DCCC	3.65	15.35	2.67

GOP	12.02	20.40	2.00
Dem	12.59	39.84	9.30

Continue reading Reviewing the November Fundraising Numbers.

DCCC: Expect more Democratic retirements in the next two weeks.

The Washington Post, on fallout from the recent retirements of Democratic members of Congress:

What most concerns Democrats is that the latest round of retirements will prompt other longtime lawmakers in competitive districts to rethink their reelection plans, [former DCCC Chair Martin] Frost said. Rep. Chris Van Hollen (Md.), chairman of the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, acknowledged that “some more” Democratic retirements will be announced before the end of the year, but that the number will be “nothing on the scale of 1994, when you had 28 Democratic open seats” and the party lost control of the House.

Unfortunately for Van Hollen, the Washington Post isn’t interested in supporting the spin:

Joe Gaylord, who was chief strategist for former House speaker Newt Gingrich in the 1994 cycle, said Democratic retirements accelerated in 1994, compared with their pace in 1993, and he predicted the same could happen this time. “It got collectively worse as they moved along,” he said.

In other words, it’s early days yet. And take that cliche however you like.

Moe Lane

Crossposted to RedState.

Reviewing the October fundraising numbers.

As promised. Short version: DNC beat RNC, NRSC edged DSCC, DCCC edged NRCC, and cash on hand would worry me more if the GOP hadn’t just removed the NJ & VA governorships from the Democrats and essentially handed NY-23 as part of a unfortunate but necessary life lesson to the GOP leadership.

RNC	9.06	11.29	0.00
DNC	11.58	12.96	4.40
NRSC	4.00	5.80	0.00
DSCC	3.70	11.30	2.00
NRCC	3.44	4.17	2.00
DCCC	3.76	14.52	3.34

GOP	16.5	21.26	2.00
Dem	19.04	38.78	9.74

Continue reading Reviewing the October fundraising numbers.

Reviewing the September fundraising numbers.

It’s that time again. Short version: RNC beat DNC, but DSCC & DCCC significantly outraised their counterparts – sufficiently so that the Democrats raised more overall for the month. When debt is factored in, the Democrats also went from being significantly behind on cash-on-hand to being slightly ahead. That being said: the RNC and NRCC are both reporting significant increases in small-person donors.

	Raised	CoH	Debts
RNC	9.05	18.90	0.00
DNC	8.20	14.90	5.03
NRSC	3.20	5.20	0.00
DSCC	5.90	10.30	2.50
NRCC	3.41	4.32	2.00
DCCC	7.00	14.70	4.00

GOP	15.66	28.42	2.00
Dem	21.1	39.9	11.53

Continue reading Reviewing the September fundraising numbers.

Waiting on the DNC…

I would like to crunch the numbers for September, except that the DNC hasn’t released their monthly totals yet. Given that the Democrats had great months for both their Senatorial and Congressional campaigns, it’s going to take exceedingly little for the Democrats to have both more money raised and more cash on hand this month. The DNC had over 15 million in the bank last month; even assuming no change in that it’s enough to make for a significant COH advantage.

On the bright side – and it is a significant bright side – small-donor contributions are up for both the RNC and NRCC.