The Obama campaign announced today that the Obama / Biden campaign raised $66,000,000 in August, shattering the record Obama set back in February of $55,000,000 by 20%. More impressive was the 500,000 new voters that are new contributors to the campaign making it the most widely supported presidential run in history.
Campaign manager David Plouffe said:
John McCain says that he’ll take on the special interests and lobbyists, but McCain can’t fix a problem he’s been part of for three decades. The 500,000 new donors to the Obama campaign demonstrate just how strongly the American people are looking to kick the special interests out and change Washington. We are proud of the millions of volunteers and more than 2.5 million donors to the Obama campaign who are contributing to help us deliver the change we need instead of letting John McCain just continue the same failed Bush policies while middle class Americans struggle.
According to a very interesting and well researched article by Seth Colter Walls the short answer is YES. Polling does not sample recently registered voters and typically the reach out to equal numbers of democrats and republicans causing data to be skewed because there are about eleven million more registered democrats in the United States. (more…)
One of the more interesting campaign lines today came from Hillary Clinton talking about McCain and Palin to about 300 in Florida.
“To slightly amend my comments in Denver,” she said, “no way, no how, no McCain, no Palin.”
Clinton said the nation should be proud that the Republicans have a woman on the ticket, but argued that returning Republicans to the White House “is like asking the iceberg to save the Titanic.“
Last night the Daily Show with Jon Stewart covered the Republican convention and took a look at some of the comments and commentators. Might be the best Daily Show ever. Highlights include, well you should watch it for yourself.
Between hurricanes in the gulf and Palin’s constant stream of new disclosures, most have missed that for the first time 50% of voters polled by Gallup are now saying they will vote for Obama. (more…)
