I read that Kerry only has $16 million in his campaign fund

[rockymountaindem]

Is this true? That's hardly anything!

[Leilani]

1. I heard he was running limited TV ads

because he didn't have the money to compete with Bush.

[alcuno]

2. That's 14 million more than I thought he had.

Relax. The fundraising is about to begin in earnest.

[MercutioATC]

3. I read it was a little over $2M cash on hand...

Not a positive sign, especially with 527's being held to the law (not being able to specifically campaign for or against any particular candidate).

[Old and In the Way]

14. What's the rush?

We have nominated a Democrat yet, remember?

Or is it OK, now?

[MercutioATC]

15. Money's not an issue for candidates?

Nominated or not, he stands a good chance of being nominated and money IS an issue in elections. I know which button you're trying to push here, but you're going to have to at least try to make sense if you want a reaction.

(oh, and I think you meant "we HAVEN'T nominated a Democrat yet)

[Old and In the Way]

26. Thanks for noting my grammatical oversight.

But I'm still curious to know.....are you now approving DNC fundraising for Kerry? Last week it was premature. Is it OK now?

[MercutioATC]

30. Since he has the delegates, I have no issue with it.

My only objection last week was that nobody had enough delegates to secure the nomination. Kerry does now.

[Gloria]

4. "A Challenge a Day, Keeps Bush at Bay"--to counter the money gap,

Kerry must continue to make a headline every day with a pithy remark about Bush, that is accurate and slightly derogatory--something the press will jump on and and which will stick in people's minds...

In other words, he must take control of the media message.....isn't that what Bush has done for the last 3 years??

[Florida_Geek]

5. Remember it is NOT Official he is our running mate

He is still a couple vote from that.

IMHO the Big Dog will start Barking for Dollars once Kerry is official.

[Nicholas_J]

27. Remember

Gore had only half of the money that Bush had for his campaign in 2000. ANd with thet Bush could not win the popular vote.

ANd Kerry now has the number of delegates needed to be the nominee acording to the latest tally at CNN:

Kerry 2162
Edwards 534
Dean 170
Clark 57
Sharpton 27
Kucinich 23

http://www.cnn.com/ELECTION/2004/primaries/pages/scorecard/index.html

Once he won the four states on tuesday, superdelegates from those states started endorsing Kerry.

[bushalert]

6. That's why we need to contribute to Kerry.

We need to sh*t, or get off the pot......Now is the time to donate to Kerry.

[David Dunham]

22. I gave Kerry $150 and will give $100 more this month.

[Jane Austin]

23. Ahem . . . .

 . . . . or you could say "fish or cut bait".  

Love,
Your Mom (heading over to donate to Kerry)

[Maccagirl]

7. Someone on CNN suggested that Bush was running his ads

simply to bankrupt Kerry. Sounds about right. I have a question though-why would there be any undecided/"swing" voters left? Both men are known quantities, both in character and policy. If a person can't decide between the two by now-well, I just need an explanation.

[JoeKSimmons]

8. Last I heard he had six million he got from pawing his half of his house

I asume that was spent beating Dean in Iowa. What does he have left after beating Dean? I don't know...

[KC21304]

9. I do. Yes he does.

And if Bush keeps running those idiotic lying ads Kerry won't have to run any. All he has to do is keep refuting them with the press covering him and then they run it over and over for free.

[MercutioATC]

12. That was back in December...about $6.5M

That money's long gone.

[NNN0LHI]

10. Its not how big it is, its how you use it

:)

Don

[xray s]

13. Yeah, I don't care how big it is

If it is a sorry ass, limp, useless embassasment, no one is gonna' vote for it.

[progressive dem]

11. Kerry needs Edwards trial attorneys' money

Kerry raised 10 million online in 10 days, pretty good huh? But this of course pales in comparison to the GW fund.

Edwards has BIG donors, wealthy trial attorneys who met with Kerry yesterday. Kerry needs this support.

Dean is not interested in a VP slot, Edwards is.

Kerry/Edwards the winning ticket

It's all about the benjamins...

[jenk]

16. these new campaign finance laws are choking us!

[JoeKSimmons]

29. Why do you say that?

We have millions in moveon dot com for free and SOros is handing out millions like candy. What part of CFR is hurting us?

[freeforall]

17. What if...?

I suspect this is probably illegal (so don't jump all over me!), but - what if interested foreigners were to send money to their Dem relatives in the States to put into Kerry's campaign?

Don't forget - the rest of the world wants the jacka$$ * out of office too, It's in our best interest. And - we only like to be neighbourly and help out!

Wee're counting on you! So please don't let us down. A vote for the Dems is a vote for the return of global sanity.

[TomSeaver]

18. It stinks

his wife can't use her money

[Crunchy Frog]

19. I think the money is coming in

at a pretty rapid clip now, and will continue to do so, and to accelerate. I plan on donating as soon as I get a fresh infusion of cash.

I think that the fact that there were two major grassroots based candidacies with major fundraising power will turn out to be a great boon to Kerry in his campaign for the presidency.

[rockymountaindem]

20. Kick

Donate to Kerry now!

[David Dunham]

21. Kerry announced he raised $10 million over internet in last 10 days.

[Feanorcurufinwe]

24. That's the big story

[Nicholas_J]

28. Maintaining that...

He will have twice the money Bush does by the September...

Not likely to happen, but he will have more than enough to mount an effective challege.

[hellhathnofury]

25. Can the party fund him directly yet?

I thought Terry Mac had stock-piled funds for the fight.