Obama Campaign Still Keep June Fund Raising Numbers A Secret
Why hasn’t Barack Obama revealed how much money he raised in June? A number of his supporters are a bit antsy about it — is he still pulling in those record-breaking numbers? If so, why hasn’t he said anything?
The Obama campaign has said anything because they’re embarrassed by the June fund raising numbers, especially coming after Obama’s high-profile rejection of public campaign financing. Which is turning out to be a bit of hubris the liberal messiah is going to end up regretting.
What’s particularly interesting is that Obama is running one of the most bloated campaigns in the history of Presidential politics. His campaign staff is twice what Bush’s was in 2004. He is outspending McCain nearly 5 – 1 on staff salaries, 2 – 1 on office rent and 25 – 1 on advertising.
Plus, Obama’s roughly 700 campaign staffers are seven times what McCain has.
Obama was the fund raising master in the primaries, no doubt about it, but with many of his biggest-money contributors having already maxed out the amount they can legally donate to him and with Hillary’s backers balking at forking over any cash he’s in serious trouble given the above spending levels.
With his choice not to take public funding complicating the issue further, Obama is faced with either keeping his fund raising at the herculean levels he enjoyed throughout the primaries, which is bloody unlikely, or having to cut back on campaign expenditures.
With staff cut backs likely to make the candidate Oprah is now calling “the one” look a bit less messianic than we’ve become accustomed to neither option is all that good.
