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Born at the Crest of the Empire

Friday, February 01, 2008

Political bits

(TheHill) The "McCain defecting the GOP for the Dems" story is getting a replay after a promotion on Drudge. (Surprised it took this long.)

(YouTube) Ann Coulter says she'd vote for Clinton over McCain, even campaign for her, on Hannity and Colmes. (Hyperbole, of course, but also promoted on Drudge.)

(AdAge) Clinton bought an hour on the Hallmark channel on Feb 4 for a "townhall" targeting women. (In an otherwise great debate by both sides, I thought Clinton plugging this event at the end was pretty distasteful. "I'll be appearing at the Laugh Factory in Hoboken on Friday, Jay....")

(NYTimes, WaPo) we have financial reports through Dec. 31.

(Politico) Clinton $26.8 million, Obama $22.8 million. (And Obama raised $32 million in January alone!)

(NYTimes) Romney "lent his campaign" $35 million through Dec. 31. (No word on how much more in January.)

And, (WaPo) McCain was required to take out a life insurance policy to back his November loan that kept his candidacy afloat.

2 Comments:

  • loaned himself $35,000,000...thirty-five MILLION dollars...?? lots of people living check-to-check and this douchebag does this and expects someone to take him seriously...i guess it is $ spent and goes to employing some ad agency SOBs but really...if he took part of it and donated it to appalachia or new orleans don't you think he would get a few more votes...

    By Anonymous Anonymous, at 4:40 PM  

  • What no one seems to be mentioning in this Romney self financing thing is that, assuming 7-10% a year return which you expect from the successful ex head of Bain, the guy will make it back in a couple of years.

    It's not like he's going broke here.

    By Blogger mikevotes, at 5:09 PM  

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