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Duckworth short on funds for stretch run

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Posted by Fred 2006-10-18 00:00|| || Front Page|| [1 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 Can't believe the donks wouldn't reach deep into the money sack for Duckworth. She fits so well into their victimhood methodology.

Posted by Captain America 2006-10-18 00:55|| 2006-10-18 00:55|| Front Page Top

#2 Where's Rahm Emanuel when it gets tough ? Where's the Hilldebeast ? She's got millions extra to spread around, doesn't she ?

Posted by SpecOp35 2006-10-18 01:02|| 2006-10-18 01:02|| Front Page Top

#3 Duckworth, whos running as a fiscal moderate, has spent her money on a large staff, expensive consultants and an early $1 million TV campaign designed to rebut a wave of attack ads run by the National Republican Campaign Committee.

Certainly someone I want managing my money.

Posted by anon 2006-10-18 01:48|| 2006-10-18 01:48|| Front Page Top

#4 The Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, which reserved $2.3 million to run ads blasting Roskam, starts airing its first ad today.

Nice to see the McCain/Feingold bill is doing so much to prevent the attack ads.

Posted by anon 2006-10-18 01:48|| 2006-10-18 01:48|| Front Page Top

#5 Roskam is kind of a jerk but Duckworth isn't a fit for this Gerrymandered district. Hyde would always win by 75% or better and Hyde anointed Roskam.

I will hold my nose and vote Roskam.
One thing in his favor is he weighs several hundred pounds less then Hyde. For several years when Hyde would ride in the Wheaton/DuPage 4th parade I snapped some photos of him in the small convertable - one cheek on each rear seat. I never figure what he sat on in the house where the seats are so small.

Posted by 3dc 2006-10-18 02:08|| 2006-10-18 02:08|| Front Page Top

#6 anon: Certainly someone I want managing my money.

Political campaigns aren't run like 401(k)'s. The object of a campaign is to win, not accumulate funds. Duckworth is an unknown Democrat in an uphill battle against an opponent in a staunchly-Republican district that elected Henry Hyde by margins of 3-1. Her only hope was to generate buzz early on and try to attain the kind of winner's halo that inspires political donors to ante up more cash - in the world of campaign cash, polling success begets fund-raising success.

Posted by Zhang Fei 2006-10-18 03:04|| http://timurileng.blogspot.com]">[http://timurileng.blogspot.com] 2006-10-18 03:04|| Front Page Top

#7 Yep. Saw the irst DNC ad last nite.

Posted by Seafarious">Seafarious 2006-10-18 13:05|| 2006-10-18 13:05|| Front Page Top

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