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WASHINGTON, Aug. 27 — Can anyone stop Howard Dean? A few months ago it would have seemed a preposterous question. Not anymore. Last January I saw Dean blow the doors off a meeting of Democrats and predicted he would be a “player” in the race. Boy was I wrong. As Labor Day approaches, he’s not a player, he’s the front-runner for the party’s nomination — and he is going to be a hard man to stop once the nomination season begins in earnest this fall.
HIS OWN HANDLERS are so confident about his prospects that they are seriously planning for the long haul — which means, in their eyes, foregoing federal “matching” funds so they can be free to raise and spend as much as they can next spring and summer once (they hope) Dean locks up the nomination in March. No final decision has been made — and there is the little matter that Dean promised long ago to stay within the system. But the sense I get from talking to his inner circle is that he will, indeed, skip the match.
Here’s the arithmetic behind it: As of last week, his Internet-based campaign had amassed a donor list of 100,000 individuals. The average donation, campaign sources say, is $77. But the contribution limit for individuals is now $2,000 — which means, in theory, that Dean already has a potential pool of $200 million — a staggering figure compared with the $40 million or so he might be eligible for in matching funds.
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Link:
http://www.msnbc.com/news/957948.asp?0cv=CB10Wow, that was FAST!!!
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On edit: Forgot to mention... FINEMAN ADMITS HE WAS WRONG!!!
That's LBN all on its own, LOL!!!
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