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Reviewing the August Fundraising numbers.

By: Moe Lane (Diary)  |  September 19th, 2009 at 07:06 PM  | 

RESIZE: AAA

Wouldn’t you know it: I decide not to do anything consequential and the fundraising numbers become available. Short version: the GOP out-raised the Democrats for the first time since April; the NRSC beat out the DSCC for the second month; the NRCC continues to stay essentially tied with the DCCC; and the Democrats aren’t paying their debt down.

Raised CoH Debts
RNC 7.87 20.97 0.00
DNC 6.89 15.34 5.33
NRSC 3.10 5.10 0.00
DSCC 2.20 6.70 2.90
NRCC 3.15 4.20 2.00
DCCC 3.30 10.73 4.67
GOP 14.12 30.27 2.00
Dem 12.39 32.77 12.90

The good news for the Democrats is that they’re still maintaining a slight cash-on-hand advantage overall and a decent one on the Congressional level… if you ignore their debt, which they at least seem determined to do. A comparison of this time last cycle…

Raised CoH Debts
RNC 5.06 16.02 0.00
DNC 4.62 4.69 2.00
NRSC 2.36 7.12 0.00
DSCC 2.58 20.64 3.50
NRCC 2.54 1.40 3.95
DCCC 3.50 22.13 3.08
GOP 9.96 24.54 3.95
Dem 10.70 47.46 8.58

…shows pretty much what we’ve been seeing to date: the Democrats are not dominating the financial arena like they were this time in 2007. That’s not good news for a party in power.

But since complacency is a bad idea:

RNC donation page.
NRCC donation page.
NRSC donation page.

Moe Lane

Crossposted to Moe Lane.

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  • Long John Blackbeard Patcheye Hook

    I smell a rat.

  • Long John Blackbeard Patcheye Hook

    we are talking about the party of tax cheats here. I guess that I’m uncomfortable with the thought of carrying debt from cycle to cycle. There’s probably intricacy that I’m missing…

  • proudgop

    The Dems still have a huge advantage with COH for House and Senate.

    I thought we’d start to see that dwindle this month I hope it does next month

  • http://www.nighttwister.com NightTwister

    Sounds like status quo to me.

  • scarlos

    and if you include debt, their advantage is only 3.86 Million, which is not bad given that the NRCC is usually the weakest GOP link and the DCCC is the best.

    We have the edge in the Senate (1.3 million), as the DSCC still has to pay down it’s debt. As “Barnacle Brain jack” points out, that is actually incredibly good compared to last year, especially since the Democrats have to defend a wider field than we do.

    What’s really surprising to me is that the DNC is actually competing with the RNC. Usually it’s an RNC blowout (though Obama dumping cash into it probably helped alot)

  • http://moelane.com/ Barnacle Brain Jack

    A ‘huge’ advantage is 22 million to 1.4, or 21 million to 7, or 47 million to 25. Which is why the Democrats are in a better position to raise money *this* cycle – only they’re doing proportionately worse than they were doing *last* cycle.

  • Aaron Gardner

    and, you know, go ahead and send out a donation in order to close that gap.

    But you seem to be the “worry wort” type rather than the “do something about it” type. NTTAWWT

  • http://www.hakubi.us/ Neil Stevens

    You mean cover it?

  • Xasteius

    Like I mentioned previously, I might be a little paranoid, but I probably just lacking in knowledge over political fundraising and related topics. Any suggested public literature on the topic?

  • http://www.hakubi.us/ Neil Stevens

    He can’t just make them go away. The creditors have to get their money. And the law has a lot to say about who pays that money.