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So, it is undeniable that Ron Paul raised a monstrously huge amount of money. He will likely have, Mitt Romney’s personal check book aside, the largest fundraising of Q4.  What is he going to do with it?
So far, we have cheesy ads. But we also have large mailings going into places like South Carolina, where [...]

The Ron Paul money bomb is amazing. On a certain level though, it makes a lot of sense.  I’m about to make a totally obvious point:
Ron Paul’s support is a protest vote.
There are a lot of Republicans right now who are really angry. Republicans are furious with their party.  In 2004, Dems were furious [...]

You don’t often get to write this sentence, so I had to do it:

State of New Mexico
$277,230

University of New Mexico
$31,950

[...]

I have two questions about the possibility of a December NH primary:

Can candidates collect matching funds for that? What are the mechanics of that? When do they actually get the money? It is clear that John McCain has more than enough money to compete if he takes matching funds. But when would they actually arrive?
Mitt [...]

They all come at once:

Rudy Giuliani at $10.5m. $15 CoH

Mitt Romney at $10m, $8.5m from self. And only $9m CoH. Is that a burn rate over 100%?
Fred Thompson at $8m
John McCain at $6m. $3.6m CoH, $1.5m in debt. I wonder where Jonathan Martin got his bogus info.

Ron [...]

After Ames, Mike Huckabee was a rockstar. His campaign manager said that the fundraising calls were coming fast and furious.
And now he has only raised $1m? Only $200k more than the previous quarter? Surely Ames and all that free media was worth more than that, no?
And, as Marc Ambinder points out, Ron Paul beat that [...]

Fred Thompson raised $8m in Q3. I assume that the release now is because they are happy with their numbers.

Well, Alan Keyes is in the race, it appears.
A friend who was a highly trusted Bush donor back in 2000 once told me that he got regular phone calls from the Bush campaign in 1999 and 2000 asking to pay the speaking fees for Alan Keyes events. Keyes never had the firepower to actually raise [...]

I keep giggling whenever I read about the Norman Hsu scandal.
First, Fred Thompson got it right. Didn’t the Clinton’s learn anything from the fundraising scandals of the 90s?
Second, the first great fundraising scandal of the post-Abramoff ethics era is about an illegal donor. He didn’t give money for ideological reasons. He gave money so [...]

How many candidates could take this hit to their CoH? The Clintons may be sleazy, but they are loaded and clever too.