One of the whispers is that Obama is going to have problems raising money. DSCC has to target other races including Colorado, South Carolina, Oklahoma and nominally Missouri (where sources say the DSCC is going to dump a bit of cash and pretend like they care before moving on) and all the money is going to Kerry.
Now, it is still early, but I didn’t buy it. I could be wrong. But liberal big money donors are generally guilty white people who would be more than happy to throw money at a viable black candidate. The Hotline reports Obama, an open seat candidate who would normally be relying on the DSCC, raised nearly $130,000 in 30 minutes for the DSCC.
Obama is making the smart move though in raising those funds. First it gets him good relations with sitting Senators if he gets there and if a pinch comes, he gets help.
But just in case AP is wrong:
Ad — Click — Donate.
Guys from Harvard Law School rarely have problems raising funds. Like Justin Timberlake, if he ain’t gettin’ any, he ain’t askin’ enough.
If nothing else donating to Obama frees up more money for Colorado, South Carolina, and Oklahoma so go donate!
Don’t forget he is not the only canidate in this race with a Harvard Law degree.
But no one is questioning whether Ryan will raise money.
I suspect the ‘hard right’ is going to work hard to keep Obama from becoming our next Senator and the hard left is going to work hard to keep Jack out.
It should be fun.
I bet that Obama will outraise Ryan (excluding the money that Ryan tosses in himself)
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I saw a blurb somewhere that said the Dems are stoked about picking up US Senate seats. Which ones? Taking back the Senate in play?
I don’t think anyone thinks the Dems winning the Senate is likely, but there are scenarios.
–Illinois is considered the most likely to switch to Democratic.
–Georgia is most likely to become officially Republican
–Alaska has a weird race with the popular former Democratic Governor Tommy Knowles running against the daughter of current Governor Frank Murkowski. Normally Alaska would be out, but Knowles is popular, Murkowski’s appt. of his own daughter didn’t go well, and she is pro-choice.
–Louisiana is crazy b/c John Breaux is stepping down
–Same with Florida and Graham.
–South Carolina is weird and would normally go Republican, but Inez Tannenbaum is a Dem and very popular
–North Carolina hasn’t shaken out
–Colorado is normally Republican, but Salazar is immensely popular
–Pennsylvania, Specter is running in the primary against a wingnut Toomey, possibly opening up a reasonable shot by Hoeffel.
–South Dakota has a tough race, though Daschle is nominally up there
–Oklahoma has a strong Dem nominee in what should be a Republican seat
The thing is Dems have to pick up seats and have more states to defend so it’ll be tough to hold, but we’ll see. I’ll do a full post laying out the terrain later.