Small Donors Give Big Cash to Republicans

Source: CBS

For the first time in a decade, Republican candidates for Congress are raising more than Democrats from small donors.

GOP candidates for the House and Senate this year have raised $70 million from small donors, compared with $44 million brought in by Democratic candidates, according to a Washington Post analysis of campaign finance data.

The trend is another sign that Republicans have turned their political momentum into money. Reports covering the first quarter had shown that GOP candidates were closing the gap or exceeding Democrats in key races and that corporations have started to shift behind the party.

The giving also fits a pattern in which small contributors loyal to the opposition are more motivated to give while their party is out of power. The last time Republicans received more small donations than Democrats was during the 1998 midterms, when Democrat Bill Clinton held the presidency.

In suburban Detroit, for example, 70 percent of the $450,000 raised by Republican House candidate Rocky Raczkowski has come in checks of less than $200.


Read more: http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2010/05/28/politics/washingtonpost/main6526319.shtml

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Disturbing news

Disturbing, indeed.

And instead, we let them get bigger and stronger than us.

Lots of people here called it, too.

on a silver platter.

and then promptly told us to STFU, and they went ahead and served their true masters.

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If you SEEM like you are a grass roots movement, you get grass roots' donations.

even in congress. I think most of that money is coming from corporations and their front groups.

Reading these comments is quite enlightening. Cheerleading Democratic failure on DU. Now there's something to think about.

Julie

At least the Repubs give theirs lip service.

And they're correct. Their reaction to the browning of the USA is NOT pretty.

Still vying for favor from the older elite. Northwest area mostly newly rich, they feel insecure for two or three generations and they're a little time away from ending that phase.

They'd quit being Republicans, but they can't afford to lose the stock tips.

there was a story about what a wreck the Republicans were financially.

:shrug:

I don't believe it for a minute....