McCain raises 12.5M, Edwards rasied $14M. Do we now have the advantage?

[Hamlette]

I know I give more to Dems because of the Internet and if true, this could be the leveling mechanism we've long needed.

To think McCain, their supposedly #1 guy raised less than Edwards, our sort-of 3rd place guy.

Any other numbers out? These are the only two I've seen today...besides guesses.

[Hav]

1. .

The numbers I've seen here on DU:
Clinton: 24
Obama: 21

Romney: 23 (quite surprising to me)
Guiliani around 16 I think


The Dems seem to do well.

[Hamlette]

2. There are some rich mormons out there...I'd bet much came from them

"dems seem to do well"? We're kicking butt. My whole life I remember the numbers coming out and the GOP beating us like a drum.

After 2004 I don't dare get my hopes up but maybe we can take this country back.

[Selatius]

3. The game is still far, and away, completely stacked against poorer people.

Get 250 managers from Wal-Mart to donate the maximum amount to an individual Republican candidate, and you end up with a total of $575,000.

What's worse, these rich people can donate $28,500 per year to national party committees and $10,000 to local and state party committees each year. Basically, one person, with enough money, can donate a total of $97,500 in contributions an election year.

The simple truth is that it is harder to get several thousand common people to donate that much money than it is to get only 250 managers to donate that kind of change.

If 250 Wal-Mart managers donated the maximum amount to the Republican presidential candidate, the maximum amount to both local/state Republican party committees and the national Republican party committee, they can generate $24,375,000.

Try getting 2,500 workers to donate that much money.

[AZBlue]

4. Nah.

If this were April 2, 2008, maybe. But there's so much time left for so much to change.