Politico: Democrats' gloom deeepens

[BzaDem]

"Democratic pessimism deepened when, that same day, Chris Cillizza and Shailagh Murray wrote in The Washington Post: “In the 13 battleground states that require voters to register by party, there are nearly 1.5 million more Democrats than at this time in 2004. The comparable Republican numbers, by contrast, have fallen by 61,000 during that time. Registered Democrats outnumber registered Republicans by more than 3.3 million in these same 13 battleground states, roughly double the edge — 1.8 million — they enjoyed over the GOP four years ago.”

Can it get worse for the Democrats? Yes! On Tuesday, The Associated Press wrote: “Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama spent $87.5 million last month and began October with nearly $134 million in the bank. The numbers illustrate his vast financial advantage over John McCain, his Republican rival, in the final stretch of the contest. McCain ended September with $47 million in the bank.”

The story went on to note that Obama “spent $65 million in advertising in September to McCain’s $22 million. In October, he has outspent McCain 4-to-1 in advertising.”

Awful news. Obama has a money problem. And you know what it is? He might run out of time to spend all the money he has! Election Day might come and go before Obama can spend the $5 million a day he is now raising. (If this does happen, I suggest he borrow a page from Oprah and buy everyone in America a Pontiac. Just as a gesture.)"

http://www.politico.com/news/stories/1008/14800.html

Face it. We're all doomed.

[RelativelyJones]

1. Silly, featherweight article, like so much from Politico

[AlCzervik]

2. omg Roger Simon actually made me laugh instead or curse. Funny stuff.

"And rumors are now flying that McCain has proof that when Obama was in the second grade he once ate paste."

lol.

[alcibiades_mystery]

3. That's Roger Simon's Bitter Surrender

He's so sad that McCain is getting trounced that he will now pout in the corner like a fucking baby and make up silly articles about how Democrats are 'sad.'

Meanwhile, we're all laughing our asses off at douchebags like him.

[BzaDem]

7. Did you read the article? n/t

[HughMoran]

4. Lol - I needed that

With all the silly stuff being posted, a little tongue-in-cheek was exactly what the doctor ordered :D

[AlCzervik]

6. i thought it was funny as well.

[Fluffdaddy]

5. Come on............... Lighten up Francis!

Jokes are good

[Alter Ego]

8. I laughed.

Because I can't help feeling like it's true--we can't stop predicting doom, even on the precipice of making history.

[Essene]

10. so did i =D

[davidinalameda]

9. face it-Democrats are very good at pulling defeat out of the jaws of victory

2004 comes to mind

John Kerry ran what has to be one of the worst campaigns in my memory

thank goodness that Obama learned from it

[ProSense]

11. One of the worst campaigns in history

happened in the Democratic primary, the other is McCain's.

Kerry in fact ran a two great campaigns: first winning the primary, and then nearly unseating an incumbent President who was still polling above 50%. The fact that the Republicans resorted to vote suppression and machine tampering suggest that they believed they couldn't win the election by playing fair.

I agree with you that Obama learned from events of 2004.