Several Democratic presidential campaigns are strapped for cash

[KittyWampus]

MIAMI - In a telltale sign that his presidential campaign is having trouble raising money, Sen. Joseph Lieberman has asked his campaign staff to postpone a paycheck in January.

Paid staff have been asked to volunteer to defer one of their two January paychecks to free up cash for a last-ditch advertising blitz in New Hampshire, site of the first Democratic primary voting on Jan. 27.

Lieberman is not the only Democratic presidential candidate facing a money crunch. Sen. John Kerry of Massachusetts reported Wednesday that he will loan his campaign $850,000... Last month Rep. Richard Gephardt of Missouri asked his senior campaign staff to take a pay cut.

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Only two Democratic presidential candidates - Dean and Gen. Wesley Clark - appear to be raising plentiful cash.

Clark's sudden success is most striking. After a late start this fall, his campaign hopes to raise a stunning amount in the October-December quarter: "We're still in the $10 to $12 million range," said Clark spokesman Bill Buck.

The Dean campaign, which led the field in fund raising over the past two quarters, said it expects "another successful quarter," but would offer no estimate. Dean aims to match Bush's goal of $200 million in donations during the primary season.

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Lieberman campaign spokesman Jano Cabrera said the belt-tightening move merely reflects a "cash-flow problem" and that Lieberman's campaign has raised plenty of money but won't have access to what it needs until federal matching funds are distributed in January.

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Fundraising for the campaign of Sen. John Edwards.... Asked if the campaign would make its 2003 goal of $20 million, Salazar said: "We're going to be about where we expected to be."


Rep. Dennis Kucinich, D-Ohio, has raised $4.64 million so far this year, and spokesman David Swanson said, "it's been picking up each quarter," with $1.1 million so far in the current one.
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[BootinUp]

1. Clarks fund raising

is going great. He is over 300,000 in 3 days, looks like he will easily meet the million dollar challenge which ends Dec 31. Go GO GO!

[eileen from OH]

2. Gee, I wonder why all those people who want Joe

aren't ponying up. Really, if he's so freakin' "mainstream" why isn't the money flowing in from all those people who think he's the only one who can beat Bush? I mean it - cash raised IS one measure of support so what will it take before he "gets it" and "gets out."

eileen from OH

[davidinalameda]

3. sounds like a few more are going to be on the sidelines come the new year

and the one I want to see gone the most is Lieberman!

bye bye Joe

[kainah]

4. the only one I want gone is Holy Joe

I think the debate has been really good for the party, at least that's what I see in Wyoming. Very few people committed to anyone but "anyone but bush" and lots of people talking about the candidates. And a brokered convention would be a public relations coup of the first magnitude. Imagine if they actually made politics EXCITING again? Imagine how the media would go bonkers over a real, old-fashioned convention. I say, keep on slugging it out.

Hopefully, at least Dean, Clark, Moseley-Braun, Kucinich, Sharpton & at least one of the acceptable congressional three (Kerry, Gephardt, Edwards) will go through most of the primaries. Let the voters decide again!!! THAT would energize the voters.

Edited to add my dream outcome to a brokered convention. Either:

1) Dean/Clark (most likely), or
2) Gore/Clinton (highly UNlikely!) :shrug:

[opihimoimoi]

5. As in Poker. Texas Holdum style, only ONE winner in the end

Not all candidates reach across the election Hwy. All but one gets squished.

[Voltaire99]

6. Bet: ~40 days until race is Lieberman-free

Paid staff have been asked to volunteer to defer one of their two January paychecks to free up cash for a last-ditch advertising blitz in New Hampshire, site of the first Democratic primary voting on Jan. 27.

Hilarious. It's like being told to give up your life preserver so that the captain doesn't have to go down with the ship. ;-)