Redstate

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FISA and Financing. Perhaps he would have been better off taking public financing ?

The free exchange of ideas inevitably yields both heat and light.

Moe, you have been making this point for weeks -- where are Obama's May fundraising numbers????

Pathetic.

Obama peaked in February. In fundraising, in votes, in registration, in everything. It will take the media a while to cach up to *Moe*.

the only important point we have to pray is that his loons are nearly tapped out for the next two months until the general election funds kick in- if McCain can close the gap until August he may be able to compete for the last two months with using RNC victory and the 85 million fed funds... I think this month McCain will raise more in June than he did in May.. if so he will be able to survive until August.

"Small town folks get bitter after which they cling to guns or religion, or antipathy to people who aren't like them, or anti-immigrant sentiment"- Barack Carter Obama

I'll be giving my money to my Conservative Congressman and nothing to support RINOS!

In May, I had already given my fair share and was just waiting it out to see if my candidate would pull it off in the primary with what I had already contributed. There wasn't much else my money could do for Obama at that point. We were still having an internal battle in our own party and we were tired and drained and tapped out.

And I would guess that June, July and August might be about the same since McCain doesn't really seem to have much momentum and Obama supporters are complacent. But when things heat up in September and October, things will heat up again and the money will flow. I AM very disappointed in Obama about FISA and everything else, but as you can well understand, you work with the candidate you have. I will keep contributing.

you have to contextualize all that as the limping-to-the-finish-line month that was the end of a bloody primary that was expected to either June 3rd or turn into an epic battle. It was very much a wait and see kind of thing, we were all biting our nails to see what was coming next. May is not representative of the whole.

On CNN earlier this afternoon (3:15ish pm central?) they were throwing around numbers like 500 million and were talking of a national advertising campaign to rival that of McDonald's and/or Nike.

As the price of gas goes up, possibly over $5 a gallon this summer, how will it affect campaign contributions? Do you really think the enormous fundraising Obama has previously shown will continue? I really can't see how the millions of people who are supposedly struggling to pay for gas and food will keep scrapping up even $20 or $50 to give to either candidate.