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A dose of good news for the NRSC

Posted: Friday, September 19, 2008 7:29 PM by Carrie Dann
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From NBC/NJ's Carrie Dann
With at least six tight races on their hands – and with polls showing their incumbents saddled with Bush’s low approval ratings– the folks at the National Republican Senatorial Committee have been feeling a little bit of heartburn. 

But the most recent fundraising numbers for August might just offer them a numerical dose of Pepsid AC.

In August, the NRSC outraised their Democratic counterparts by almost a million dollars. Republicans raised $5.2 million for the month, compared to a $4.36 haul by Democrats. 

Dems still have the advantage in terms of their campaign war chest, with $33.67 million in cash on hand – compared to $26.8 for Republicans.

Still, the GOP’s candidates are keeping pace in states like North Carolina, Minnesota, and Oregon despite the money disadvantage. The DSCC, which is pouring cash into campaigns like Kay Hagan's in North Carolina and Jeff Merkley's in Oregon, has vastly outspent Republicans, shelling out $13.69 million in August. The GOP Senate committee spent only $3.8 million for the month.

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Too bad donors can't know what tomorrow will bring with McCain's next political "out of it" blunders and parakeet Palins LIE-abilities.
The Democrats have it wrong-again-because people want SOLUTIONS, not slogans.

John McCain FORESAW this FAnnie/Freddie meltdown three years ago; he proposed solutions that were rejected by the Democrats.

The Democratic congress has approval ratings in the SINGLE DIGITS.  McCain quips that the ratings show approval of 'family and staff'; I would venture that, given the staffs of the Senate and House, that would not include all of them.

The Democratic party, of which I am a member, does not want me.  They want the far left fringe that is unrepresentative of the majority of Americans.  Thereore, they hav e nominated a man who is so far left of the center of America that he cannot win, and he has chosen as his vice presidential nominee a man even farther left than himself; a person who, like himself, has never held a real job, who thinks that paying higher taxes is a patriotic privilege.

The Democrats will lose this election, badly, and have no one but themselves to blame.  

Can we get some adults in positions of responsibility in the party?  So far, it seems hopeless.
When one has no ideas.  One must spend a lot of money.  Follow the money, and it will lead you to the no idea Senator from my state Illinois.

I almost wish Obama would become President, so the state of Illinois could get a Senator that would do something other than run for President.

P.S. He did vote present in the state assembly over a 100 times.  Gold Star for Obama.  Yes Barack we all noticed you showed up again today.  Good Job!
So what!
Mr. Williams / Todd:

I have had it with NBC!!!  I have been a loyal "fan" of The Today Show and Nightly News for several decades.  I have taken everything your broadcasts have given. Please, start reporting the news and not your biasis.  I don't agree with NBC's Democratic / Obama lovefest.  Under Obama, the Democrats would wreck this country!

My point of view is simple.  Tell us what is in the news - not how YOU FEEL about the news.  Let each of us determine for ourselves what is right / wrong / or a toss-up.  Most US citizens already know how skewed NBC and most other national news broadcasts are.  We have the intelligence necessary to determine who is right, and for whom we want to vote.

By the way, it was difficult to find a way to "write to you" - Perhaps you hve designed it that way, i.e. a one-way discussion. 100% from you and 0 to you.  Try listening to "us" your clients / listners / etc.  We have our own way of determining what is true and what is not.  You have the "right" to provide your opinion - but please don't hide your opinion underneath your "report" of the news / opinions / facts / etc.

Many of your listeners detest it when we hear / see you and other leading news anchors trying to hide the facts behind your poersonal viewpoint.  Again - the facts please.  We will determine the way we individually feel about the facts, and many times our "read" will differ from your opinion. That is our right, and is why this is the best country / government in the world.  No other country comes close to providing the climate for truth and the exercise of our freedom to choose for ourselves what to believe and how we feel about what you report.
Biden wants to end the "cowboy mentality" and bring in the Elmer Fudd mentality. Great idea, silwy wabbit.
Isn't it interesting that we had the savings and loan scandal at the end of the 80's when Republicans controlled the President and the Senate for much of the 80's and now we have the banking crisis at the end of a decade where Republicans again controlled the Presidency and both houses for much of this decade. It appears the policies of deregulation and trickle down economics has been proven to be a failure.  

As a resident of NC, I can only hope that Robin Hayes, Elizabeth Dole and Sue Myrick have retirement in their future.
Time for me to go make another donation to the DNC.  Please tell McSenile that when we say we want change we don't mean we want someone who changes their mind on issues daily!!!
With the energy companies spending big bucks fixing all the power outages in the midwest due to Hurricane Ike, their rates will eventually be sky high. People are already complaining they are "stealing" peoples pensions.

Is that like Obama "stealing" monies from Fannie & Freddie just before the collapse?

Funny, people will complain about postage going up 2 cents and then go and buy a house they can't afford.

The carpetbagger lez dole is down here in NC for the second time in 6 years running negative ads. Liz left for 40 years came back and conned the souterners here into thinking she was one of them...they are easily conned and poorly educated in the south
I'm unclear. Do the Republicans like sky-high gas prices and obscene oil profits, food inflation, mortgage meltdown and taxpayer bailout, a never-ending War, record debt level and out-of-control health care costs?

Do they think all that will go away because Republicans tell them they will lower taxes? Republicans lie, hasn't anyone figured that out?

Sure, Dems in power will probably do the same thing eventually but Repubs are guaranteed to continue on this same disastrous path. It really can get worse. Truly, I don't get it. It's as if some people are so desperate to believe the lies that they throw away their common sense.
To MSNBC:
So far this month I have turned my tivo off on Morning Joe and Race for the White House and after tonight I might have to do the same with Hardball. Tucker Carlson has no business being on your network. His performance tonight was not worthy of a political analysts but instead he ranted his personal judgement onto your listeners. If Tucker Carlson can not put any objectivity to his reporting he has no place on your network and should just go on FOX.

In regards to his rants tonight would you please remind Mr. Carlson that Trooper Wooten has the right as a citizen to be presumed innocent before proven guilty (which really has nothing to do with troopergate which Carlson totally disregarded) and in my personal experience in nasty divorces there is always two sides to every story. Tucker Carlson for one should know this more then most considering he was once accused of rape when he was a younger man.

Your network was the place I use to rely on to hear an objective view to a story but it seems of late with the like of Joe Scarbarough and commentators like Tuker Carlson you have chosen to bow to the right. You are losing your liberal base but maybe that is what you want.
Anyone that votes republican is not paying attention.
Negative campaigning only hurts issuing party....
When Bush was running for President, he referred to his base as the "haves and the have mores."  Will this financial fiasco affect the money contributed to the Republican candidates now that while still having more than most, they have less than before?


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