Senate Democrats Ahead in Cash Race

[Judi Lynn]

Senate Democrats Ahead in Cash Race

By Thomas B. Edsall
Washington Post Staff Writer
Friday, April 21, 2006; Page A04

The Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee continued to outpace the National Republican Senatorial Committee in fundraising, bringing in more contributions and finishing the quarter with twice as much money in the bank, according to Federal Election Commission reports released yesterday.

In years past, through the 2002 elections, the NRSC consistently crushed the DSCC in the race for cash. In the 2001-2002 cycle, the GOP committee raised $154.4 million, compared with the Senate Democrats' $60.3 million.

But this trend has been turned in recent years. In the 2003-2004 cycle, Democrats for the first time pulled ahead of the NRSC. There have been growing complaints in Republican circles about the chairmanship of Sen. Elizabeth Dole (N.C.), who was elected to the post in part because of her reputation as a fundraiser.
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Sen. Charles E. Schumer (N.Y.), the DSCC chairman, declared: "We've got the wind at our backs, because Americans know that the best way to get change in Washington is to get more Democrats elected to the Senate."
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http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/04/20/AR2006042001870.html

[shadowknows69]

1. It's not even right that such information is news

it's public knowledge yes but to make an obvious exploitive competition out of it is obscene.

[Oversea Visitor]

2. I think they to a run away cash raising

My prediction
Maybe suddenly find strange allies among corporation and business tycoon.

[PATRICK]

3. Maybe not so strange

With fairly fair voting still intact, the state is going to have a Governor, AG and two Democratic senators with possibly a president in the making. On Wall Street, disciplined tenderly by Spitzer, perhaps the sentiment is "be gentle with me" and the coffers are flowing to appease what is coming to them locally this November. For once, the whole presence of Wall Street in a Blue State gone raging indigo counterbalances the GOP lock of big money influence at least for the very top of policy making.

This perspective explains Shumer's rise in party bossing and Hillary's non-populist posturing and someone has gone nationally unheeded as a one name huge power shift in what was once a pit of Democratic impotence.

Spitzer.