Dean, Clark lead Dems in 4Q fund raising

By Will Lester

"Dec. 29, 2003 | WASHINGTON (AP) -- Aided by aggressive Internet campaigns, Democratic presidential candidates Howard Dean and Wesley Clark raised the most money in the final quarter of 2003, according to preliminary estimates.

Dean, the Democratic front-runner, will have raised more than $14 million in the final three months, pushing his yearly total to almost $40 million. Campaign manager Joe Trippi called on donors to push the quarterly total to the $14.8 million the campaign raised from July through September.

Clark, the retired Army general who entered the race in September, will have raised between $10 million and $12 million in the fourth quarter, for a total of almost $15 million since becoming a candidate.

Clark will get an additional bump after the New Year with an estimated $3.7 million worth of federal matching money, while Dean has declined public funds..."

http://www.salon.com/news/wire/2003/12/29/dean_clark/index.html


Pretty amazing. Clark went from zero to second, in three months.
If we had a media, they'd think this was a helluva story!

such that it is. They love three things:

Blood
Money
Sex


Not sure about the order. :)

On edit:

Thanks for posting this good news for Dems!

Is running with the Clark numbers tomorrow.

That's about it, though. Damn - Clark can't seem to catch a break! :eyes:

Should be lively!

Did I miss it?

Well of course. Why? Because he was popular from the get go. Even before entering Clark was polling better than many Democrats. Remember, Dean was at about 2% in the polls at one time.

and now he's polling at 25%!!!! after all of that money and press!

Gee, maybe when Clark gets some of that same press all to himself for two months......he will be polling at....well most likely more than 25%....that out of 100, you know!

however, I will say that when Clark was tied with Dean.....Clark stopped getting media attention...so we ain't talking 2%...when he raised 3.5 million in 2 weeks.....didn't seem to matter.......the pundits on CNN didn't say his name for almost two months. And the funny thing is those who watch any of those cable television shows or read the papers know that this is true. None of the analysis have his name in them......I know, because I was trying to find his name...maybe you didn't notice because you only follow your candidate's coverage...which would have been 24/7 since at least August.

Clark has a 54% "don't know who he is rate"......today!

Dean can't win, Dean is angry, Dean is too liberal, Dean puts foot in mouth again. As the saying goes, no news is good news. Fact is, Dean still has held his own, even though he's gotten hit from both sides.

So I assume they'll ratchet up their smears.
They can't be happy about his accendency; he's not the
annointed one, and therefore isn't fit to print.

since it seems the only direction General Clark knows is UP!

:kick: CLARK 2004 :kick:

is coming from.

I must admit that I am impressed at his fundraising totals.

But I don't think he's running much of a grassroots campaign anymore.

As you typically claim in threads that holds good news for Clark.

The "sleight of hand" refers to the way some posters pretend that unanswered concerns have already been answered many times.

eom

Many have been answered in previous threads. If you keep on dropping them in new threads, you entitle yourself to say the concerns are not being answered. It's just the new threads in which these bomblets are dropped overtake the responses in the old threads.

It's a pain in the butt, but, here we are again.

"But I don't think he's running much of a grassroots campaign anymore."

you have no idea what you're talking about. the grassroots org has just managed to organize itself so well it looks professional... it's actually been a little amazing seeing how it all came together.

Those grassroots action teams are still the right arm of the campaign.

:kick:

or at least some of them are republicans and he is pulling in the big republican bucks.

i love the contrast of your post and your sig....
might be the funniest unintentional post of the day.

This Dean supporter (who also likes Clark) would like to congratulate the Clark campaign and supporters on an excellent fundraising quater! Way to GO!!!:toast:

Hm, I didn't see this story reported in the NY Times.
Has anyone seen it there, or at another major media outlet?

:) I still have 1,700.00, plus my husband 2k to give to Dean if my guy doesn't get the nod. Glad to know some of Dean's supporters don't take us for granted.

But it was all from "low-hanging fruit" so to speak. Basically, a bunch of big donars who maxed out early. It will be interesting to see what Clark's numbers look like.

A couple of days ahead of the new years goal.

It seems to be coming in pretty fast.

Keep it comin' folks!

so far in the MDC campaign, killbot. That's alot of low hanging fruit.

Edwards is actually raising more money than Kerry.

The state of this country's media is sickening.

eom

in the evil but necessary fund raising race. Nothing more exciting than seeing two of the candidates untainted by an IWR vote to be doing so well.

:yourock:

Every dollar that goes to a Democrat and not to the repubs is a reason to be happy.

Even without counting the fundraising from the other candidates, it looks like Dean and Clark alone may total more money this quarter than Bush, who is reported to have raised about $25 Million. He hasn't released the numbers, but I heard $25 Million.

If Dean raises $15.5 (my prediction) and Clark raises $12 Million, they beat Bush by $2.5 Million.

How cool is THAT?

Are donating more than corporate fat cats?
Yet corporations have most of the money.
...

Go Clark!

As soon as the media declares Dean the winner of the first two primaries...they will finally concentrate on Clark as the anti-Dean.
Then they can have finally have their HORSE RACE that they have wanted all along.

Then they will build up Clark and make it a great race...so tune in...fasten your seatbelts everyone and watch the guy come from behind...It'll be so exciting! (Of course the media were the ones who put him behind through censorship, but no matter) The race will start soon...but they will be sure to call Dean the winner when the media really gets scared that Clark might win.