The Giffords campaign today reported the following:
*Over 1,730 separate contributions have been made to Giffords For Congress, 444 of those were made before December 31.
*$562,830 has been contributed as of March 31.
*$314,893 of that between January 1 and March 31.
*Arizona residents have made 1,586 contributions, including
1,191 since December 31. 1048 of those contributions were from Southern Arizona.
What this means I leave up to you…we report, you decide.
(If other campaigns will send me their reports, I'll be happy to publish)
5 comments:
I have made a correction in this post. The figure of 444 contributions before the start of the quarter is correct.
Art
$562,000, agree with vetdem, says a lot.
In particular, that 1Q06 exceeded 4Q05 is telling. 4Q05's $250K (or something like that) was the easy stuff where she got the $4200 max from boyfriend, mom, dad, aunt, uncle, sister, cousin, close friends and friends of friends.
Difficult to avoid conclusion that 1Q06's $300K+ is the result of the ability to generate community support.
Eager to see figures from the others. Those numbers, too, may say a lot.
Thought that poll was old news.
Finding myself agreeing with vetdem again. From my admittedly limited perspective, huge $$ with Giffords is clear for all to see and committed volunteers for Latas appear to be growing, but seeing little in Weiss's corner.
In what metric ($$, volunteers, endorsements, etc.) is she producing?
Am I missing something?
The money is nearly unalterably political reality at the end of the day, despite any early polls. Nearly 600K has got to be discouraging to a field of candidates who likely haven't busted 100K (are certainly aren't announcing their numbers prior to the FEC release).
Despite this, I think it is too early for any candidates to be throwing in the towel. Even if Gabby walks away with the nomination, she needs competition whether her supporters think so, or not. I don't think any but a tiny minority are seriously looking at the candidates yet. Money or name rec may not go as far with the voters as we might imagine.
BTW, the constant spiteful spinning is not attractive and is not really helping your candidates. We are all Democrats, people. Let's stick to substance in the family, eh?
Does anyone understand the 11:34 posting by anonymous, the one that talks about "wierd smear" and "distort" and "strange math"?
I don't get it.
Regarding how much can go to primary and how much to general, this is made perfectly clear in the excel spreadsheets you can download from campaignmoney.com.
The math on the spreadsheet is neither strange nor distorted, and way more than half can go to the primary.
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