Dean is the big money candidate and Clark is the grassroots canididate

[TakebackAmerica]

Who would have thunk it? All the blabbering about the "establishment"
bankrolling Clark was bunk. Clark has the grassroots now.
Dean is coming back to his family's easthampton "DEAN Witter Reynolds" roots.

[virtualobserver]

1. what? n/t

[ThorsteinVeblen]

2. ???

Speaking of blabbering...

Is incoherence a requisite quality for people who hate Dean?

[ibegurpard]

3. I'd suggest you look at the breakdown of his campaign contributions

before you start prattling on about him being the "big money" candidate.

[Larkspur]

4. Dean's grassroots are what fuels his campaign

And that is us small time donors. 54% of Dean's donations came from donations less than $200 each. Clark had more from over $200 than Dean did.

[robsul82]

5. Me thinks this'll get locked...

...before sundown. Although, it's not really close to sundown, but...shaddup.

Later.

RJS

[bryant69]

6. Forget that big money grass roots crap

Who is the Pepperoni Pizza candidate?

Who is the candidate with sprinkles?

Who is the '83 Lincoln Continental candidate?

Who is the Asgardian Candidate?

Do we really know?

Bryant
Check it out --> http://politicalcomment.blogspot.com

[TakebackAmerica]

7. I'm just

Dean people gave Clark hell for being the "establishment" favorite.
When Dean comes from plenty of WALL STREET Money and family connections up the wazooo. Clark is NOT perfect but it comforts me he dose not come from a lot of MONEY.

[whirlygigspin]

8. let go to wal-mart

and support minimum wage jobs and no unions.

feel better?

[killbotfactory]

9. Nope.

The only candidate with more small donors than Dean is Kucinich.



Dean is grassroots...

[TakebackAmerica]

10. Is Dean gonna have a party when it hits 500,000?

That will be a great day for America and the Democratic party.

[killbotfactory]

17. Yeah.

He's gonna party like it's 1999.

[Ramsey]

20. Do you want the Democrats to lose?

Because if we don't have the same resources that the Bush campaign has, we are severely handicaaped.

[hedda_foil]

12. Can you provide a link that shows Kucinich with more small donations?

I've never seen this claim before. Since Dean received more than 200,000 more small (under $200) donations last quarter, it seems unlikely, though not impossible, that Kucinich topped that.

[killbotfactory]

16. Oops. I meant as a percentage of his total funds

There is no way in hell Kucinich has more small donors than Dean, but the percentage of small donors is slightly higher for Kucinich.

[Scott Lee]

11. Is big money from common individual citizens a bad thing?

I say good on 'im!

Remember that the problem with corporate big money was that the interests behind it are narrow. Dean and his growing war chest of individual contributors means his "special interest group" is people.

That's one special interest I'll never have an issue with.

[poskonig]

13. I'm not persuaded by your comments.

I'm an impovershed student, and I've managed to scrape up over $100 for Dean so far. Dissing me is not a way to get me on Clark's side.

[WillyBrandt]

14. This makes no sense

Both of them have grassroots and money. Clark started later. That's it.

[dean4america]

15. Dean is NOT THE DEAN in DEAN WITTER

for the last time people, Howard Dean is not related to the DEAN of DEAN WITTER. if 200,000+ Americans donating 77 dollars to Dean makes him the "big money" candidate, fine by me. To suggest that Clark is a grassroots candidate in the face of Dean's grassroots success is ridiculous.

[Cha]

18. "Ridiculous" ..has never stopped 'em

yet!

[Ramsey]

19. How do you figure that?

The average amount contributed by individuals to the Dean campaign is about $80. The campaign has raised so much money because so many people have given what they could, usually a small amount. Dean is thus the ultimate grassroots candidate. His plan to opt out of th federal matching, which limits the total he can raise, has nothing to do with "big money" contributors. Dean will continue to woo the average citizen to give a small contribution. His goal is 2 million contributions of $100.

[Rowdyboy]

21. I clearly am lost...

When and how did Dean become a "big money candidate"? I missed tthat news altogether. Clark is my choice, and he has good grassroots support (hopefully it will grow) but it still can't match Dean's grassroots. To be fair, no other candidates can.

[chaska]

22. Is this really productive?

I don't see how either camp could give a rat's ass about this subject. Drop it?

[slinkerwink]

23. huh?this is clearly a huge leap in logic....

When 90% of Dean's campaign money comes from his donors, about 200,000 donors, for heaven's sake......at $75 bucks each.....clearly you haven't been listening to the news.

[Rowdyboy]

24. I'm confused...

Your profile says:

Clark/Dean for America
The Ticket for '04

Yet you go out of your way to attack Dean? Huh? What am I missing?

[PVnRT]

25. Wha???

Exactly what the hell are you talking about? The media fawns over Clark, not Dean, or Kerry, or Kucinich, or anyone else. Dean, more than the others, has connected people all over the country using the internet, and received thousands in donations from individuals.

How exactly is Clark the "grassroots" candidate?

[mandyky]

26. Nice try

Keep dreaming!