Dems "jarred" by drop in fundraising? Not really-false alarm from WaPo, again

http://mediamatters.org/blog/200909250023

The WashPost's dubious fundraising report

September 25, 2009 2:55 pm ET by Eric Boehlert


This A1 article is getting lots of attention, and fits in nicely with the Beltway's preferred Dems-are-in-big-trouble narrative:



That's the headline. Should we count the problems with Paul Kane's article?

First, there's not one Democrat quoted in the Post piece who is "jarred" by the drop in fundraising, or anything like it. The Post simply makes that announcement itself. In fact, some Democrats quoted seem to suggest it was inevitable that a fall-off would occur given the historic amount of money the party raised during Obama's run. i.e. Don't fundraising tallies, even for committees that oversee Congressional races, often drop after presidential election year cycles, which now last two years long, including the primary season?

Yet Kane spends almost his entire article comparing fundraising tallies collected immediately after a presidential compaign, with tallies collected during one. Pretty obvious apples and oranges, no?

Then there's this graphic the Post used to show just how supposedly jarring the drop-off has been for Democrats.

Obama's campaign in the summer of 2007.

I will only give my support to individual candidates.And many of us have written our reasons on the back of the empty envelpes we returned to party offices.

they are not. No, it's not about you or your friends. :hi:

since the Primary with our time and money. And, we will continue with both.

as opposed to the expected drop in funding for the Dems and the money FLOODING in to the GOP from the business boys trying to stop Obama

it was a big fearmongering headline(I know the corporatemediaWhores too well)..and I knew it would be hopping with disingenuous whiners saying they weren't donating anymore until President Obama did exactly as they wished.

couldn't find it. I put this at the tail end of the LBN article, in case anyone else cares to consider being deceived. :evilgrin:

dovetail nicely. :evilgrin: