Tuesday, April 22, 2008

Before the GOP gets too cocky

Over at NRO a comparison between Obamania and McCain's numbers...

Number of views of Obama YouTube videos: 37 million.

Number of views of McCain videos: 3 million.

Obama funds raised from under $200 donations: $76 million.

McCain funds raised from under $200 donations: $7.4 million.

Brownstein guesses that Obama has perhaps 10 times as many volunteers as McCain.

As of March, the two Democratic candidates had together raised about $430 million.

3 comments:

Ben said...

I am not getting cocky, but I think he would be the easier candidate to beat.

Anonymous said...

That number on the $200 donations parallels the national average as I pointed out on a previous post. It is one indicator that the Democrat Party is truly the party of the elitists and the Republican party, contrary to what Democrats would have you think, is truly the party of the regular working guy.

gordon gekko said...

My read on this is that McCain hasn't exactly endeared himself to the people most passionate about politics namely right wing conservatives.

These guys were central to Bush getting out the vote in the form of volunteers and money; something McCain can surely use against either of these people.

Ultimately, this race is going to be a shift to the left. Obama will get 100% of the libs and McCain will lose conservatives but pick up moderates that might go to Obama.

The question will be can he steal enough moderate votes to make up for the loss of conservatives' time, money and votes.