The Democrats’ committee trying to keep the party’s majority in the Senate raised more money in January than its Republican counterpart.
The Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee said Wednesday it raised almost $6.6 million in the first month of 2014. The National Republican Senatorial Committee raised $4.6 million during the same time.
Democrats have $15 million banked and have paid down $1.25 million of the debt it posted at the end of 2013. The committee still has $2.5 million in red ink.
Republicans have $10 million in hand and no debt.
Thirty-five Senate seats are up this year, and Democrats will be defending 21 of them. Republicans need a net gain of six seats to wrest the Senate from Democrats’ control.
(AP)
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Neither party wants for money – which is a good thing. While too little money makes it hard to get your message in front of the voters, once you are known the extra money doesn’t help. If elections could be bought, people such as Nelson Rockefeller and Ross Perot would be names of former presidents. It is good that both sides have lots of money – if you prefer a place where they politicians don’t spend lots of money on campaigning, try North Korea. It is a sign of a thriving democracy that the citizens spend their on money of politics.
The Democrats and Republicans are really controlled by the Zionists. They continue to raise all of this money as a way of funneling it to the Zionist State. It’s clear that they’re doing that in order to force Hareidim (who are living oppressed under the rule of the anti-Hareidi government) to abandon their Torah learning. They think that doing so would be the way to finally convert the Hareidim into secular Zionists.
akupers: You are nuts. Both parties are sympathetic to Israel since most Americans are, and political parties in a democracy reflect their supporters (e.g. the reason Yesh Atid hates isn’t that the leaders feel that way, but because their supporters feel that way). If the Israelis start rounding up hareidim and putting them in prison that will probably erode this sympathy since Americans tend to look very unfavorably on anything that smacks of religious persecution.
To Commenter No. 2: The following is not a rhetorical question: Are you joking?
If you are not joking, then I am inclined to agree with Commenter No. 3’s first sentence. I am more charitable in my interpretation of your comment than Commenter No. 2, which is why I considered it possible that your comment was made tongue-in-cheek.