USA Today WASHINGTON – Democratic-aligned super PACs entered the election year with a more than 2-1 fundraising advantage over increasingly fractured Republican groups, a USA TODAY analysis shows.
Liberal super PACs focused on single issues, such as gun-control, captured the most campaign money, while once-flush organizations such as American Crossroads struggled to attract early support from Republican donors.
The Crossroads super PAC, affiliated with GOP strategist Karl Rove, raised $3.6 million last year – a fraction of the $99 million the powerhouse group raised in 2012 when it tried to dislodge President Obama and elect a Republican majority to the Senate.
The upstart Tea Party Patriots super PAC, meanwhile, doubled its fundraising during the second half of the year and posted the biggest receipts of any conservative group, new reports filed with the Federal Election Commission show.
Paul Krugman stated that "Statistics show that unionized states are much more equitable than non unionized states" siting from the ‘non partisan’ Economic Policy Institute. The director of the Economic Policy Institute is Richard Trumka,
ReplyDeleteRichard Trumka - President of the AFL-CIO and AFL-CIO Workers' Voices PAC
The Mitch McConnell make him a one term president statement brought all the nuts out of the woodwork. It failed now it's back to the politics as usual.
ReplyDeleteThat's the game of both parties. Are you offended as McConnell said it out loud as the democrats try to retake the house leaving the same thing unsaid.
DeleteI particularly like the way liberals are lead around by the nose with respect to the inheritance tax. Of course, the hype being that we have to stick it to those rich elites and keep the Paris Hiltons of the world from getting daddies fortune.
ReplyDeleteFact is that very wealthy people protect themselves from the inheritance tax with life insurance policies to cover so that heirs receive what they would have without an inheritance tax anyway. The people who get screwed are people like family farmers whose net worth are tied up in farmland and machinery or family run businesses and cannot afford the luxury of such policies. To pay the tax they must sell the family business, many times as a distressed sale... The tax destroyed the business.(maybe thats the point?)
And who pushes this ‘stick it to the man’ mantra that gullible leftist readily chant? The American Council of Life Insurers, George Soros, who has a close business associate that owns Progressive Insurance and Warren Buffett, who, under the umbrella of Berkshire Hathaway, owns 7 insurance companies.... Liberals... keep voting for your handlers... they love it.
Except Warren Buffet who's donating the bulk of his wealth to the Gates Foundations. No Federal Income Taxes on Warrens fortune. A true American touting he should pay more and sets in place a process to avoid Federal Income Tax.
DeleteLiberals stick to their mantras and conservatives stick to their mantras. So what?
ReplyDeleteIts can only become a mantra if you come to think of it as the truth... anything else is just a lie for the sake of an outcome that couldn't withstand the truth.
DeleteMantra (Sanskrit मन्त्र) means a sacred utterance, numinous sound, or a syllable, word, phonemes, or group of words believed by some to have psychological and spiritual power. Mantra may or may not be syntactic nor have literal meaning; the spiritual value of mantra comes when it is audible, visible or present in thought. Truth has nothing to do with it my friend.
DeleteIn total, liberal groups that raised $100,000 or more earned a collective $94.5 million. This money can be put towards messaging, research, advertising, campaigning, or whatever other functions the groups see as necessary.
ReplyDeleteOn the other side of the fundraising war, the Republican party is quite handily losing. A few of the party’s biggest friendly Super PACs raised a combined $7.7 million, which fizzles out quite depressingly in comparison to the success of the Democrats.
However, what is even more surprising is the fact that the more radical right-wing elements of the GOP have out raised the traditional party groups. The Tea Party’s various Super PACs, such as the Tea Party Patriots, collected a combined $20 million, well above the meager fundraising the rest of the Republican Party has seen.
At what point in time Mick do the people raising the majority of legal campaign funds stop being labeled as "the more radical right-wing elements."
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They will stop being labeled thus when they become mainstream, for that is the nature of our system as long as the fence sitters are in the majority. With the Tea Party Patriots dominating the fund raising they are now in a much better position to orchestrate the upcoming campaigns, for, as we all know, the super pacs determine who will be nominated and who will be sent back to the woodshed.
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DeleteSo what you are saying Mick is that the name callers are the ones who can raise the most money, no?
DeleteI wouldn't have said it exactly like that, but most of the effective political messages are crafted to cause alarm within the electorate. How many times have we read that Obama is destroying America or that the Republicans hate women, minorities and the poor? Obvious lies meant to stir up the base and get them to empty their purses for "the cause".
Delete"So let me begin by saying this: I know that there are millions of Americans who are content with their health care coverage – they like their plan and they value their relationship with their doctor. And that means that no matter how we reform health care, we will keep this promise: If you like your doctor, you will be able to keep your doctor. Period. If you like your health care plan, you will be able to keep your health care plan. Period. No one will take it away. No matter what. My view is that health care reform should be guided by a simple principle: fix what’s broken and build on what works."
ReplyDeleteMick this type of lie spoken by our president to many minds is destroying America.