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December 29, 2003
| Bats and Snowballs

Howard Dean and Dick Gephardt, rivals for the Democratic presidential nomination, have a sub-contest underway: who can raise the most money between now and the end of the quarter, New Year's Eve.

As of this 5 a.m. morning, Gephardt's fundraising measurement (which he depicts on his web site as a tortoise's snowballs - don't ask) shows $906,163.04 raised so far in his end-of-quarter push.

Dean's fundraising measurement - a bat - showed his campaign is running at $559,510.38, also as of 5 a.m.

If you set both odometers to zero as of this morning, and count up until midnight, Pacific Time, on Wednesday night, it may provide some interesting insight. Will Democratic insiders marshal an "anybody-but-Dean" effort, and throw tons of last-minute money at Gephardt, who has been running neck-and-neck with Dean in Iowa? Or will Dean's frontrunner status only grow, and show it, by outpacing his main rival's fundraising heading into the first-in-the-nation Democratic presidential contest?

Forget the pundits. Focus on the bat and snowballs.

(Cross-posted at Late Final.)



Posted by latefinal at December 29, 2003 05:29 PM | TrackBack
Comments

A bat. How very vigilante of him.

Please don’t tell me I’ve a choice between Dick “Millions for Protectionism, Not One Cent For Trade” Gephardt and the Green Mountain Boy.

Posted by: Mitch H. at December 30, 2003 08:47 AM

NO! You can do like the rest of us, and vote for BUSH!

The democratic party, today, and, Ishtar, the movie; share a lot in common. Inside the ballgame where money talks, a few big shot executives thought they could sell anything. And, they got their shirts ripped off.

Since we’ve already had democratic calamities, especially Mondale’s ability to lose yet again in a senate race, should give anyone pause who thinks the democrats have it ‘together.’

What they got over a generation, or so, was the takeover of the universities. And, the publication of books that were incomprehensible. This will all be forgotten. (Except for the debt kids absorbed having to sit through the tripe, to get to the paper.) For this reason, alone, not only have the Soviet’s failed, our mirror movement to socialism/communisim and women in charge, just got dumped, too.

There will be jobs available when this bullshit gets replaced.

Posted by: carolincalifornia at December 30, 2003 05:41 PM

As of 9 AM December 31:

Gephardt: $1.25 million
Dean: $1.45 million

An interesting comparison between the old and new fundraising machines….

In the meantime, Carol in California should consider the virtues of having an opposition; even if they are wrong, they will still provide valuable criticism. (And I’m not as convinced that the Democrats are wrong as she seems to be.)

Mitch, you need not worry about Gephardt; he will only advance if the other candidates rally around him, and that will not happen. Clark, with the backing of the Clinton-controlled DNC and DLC, will probably become the Dean alternative. Will Dean win, will Clark win, or (gasp!) will they manage to forge a unified Democratic platform? Stay tuned…

Posted by: Catfish N. Cod at December 31, 2003 12:34 PM

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