Obama Opens Offices In Bismarck North Dakota
And he’s even sending a member of his Illinois Senate staff to take the job of state coordinator (guess there was nobody local competent enough to do it).
What will be interesting to me is not so much the opening of this office but rather how long it’s going to stay open given the state of Obama’s fund raising. Obama is still keeping his June fund raising numbers a secret despite the McCain campaign having not only released their numbers but made something of a fuss over them too. Obama is also running the most bloated campaign in history. 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.
Which is why I wonder how much longer Obama will be able to justify having an office and a staffer in a state that hasn’t voted for a Democrat President since 1964.
