Across South, Democrats open wallets (Prez Race Dems leading Repubs)

[RamboLiberal]

http://www.ajc.com/gwinnett/content/metro/stories/2007/05/19/0520natpoldonate.html

Something unusual happens to the political map when it's overlain with first-quarter fund-raising for the 2008 presidential election: Georgia, like much of the South, turns a pale shade of blue.

While Republican candidates at the state and local levels hold a distinct edge in fund-raising now that the GOP controls Georgia's statehouse, the party doesn't dominate at the presidential level.

Democratic presidential candidates collected about 62 percent of the $1.6 million raised from Georgians in the first three months of 2007.

Democrats also led presidential fund-raising in Georgia in the same quarter leading up to the 2000 presidential election — the last race without an incumbent. But back then, their hold on the dollars wasn't nearly as tight: Democrats led Republicans by just $36,000.

Now Democrats are leading Republicans by $382,000 — a gap more than 10 times greater — according to an Atlanta Journal-Constitution analysis of first-quarter presidential contributions.



Love that map - would like to see the voting be the same!

[KingFlorez]

1. The Democratic field has motivated people more

Whereas, the Republican field isn't strong enough to motivate anyone, not even their own base.