WaPost: Edwards, Kerry Were Barely Solvent Last Month

[La_Serpiente]

Edwards, Kerry Were Barely Solvent Last Month

New campaign finance reports show that the two leading candidates for the Democratic nomination were barely solvent at the end of January heading into a prospective $50 million-plus ad blitz by President Bush.

Bush ended January with $104.4 million in the bank, nearly 100 times as much as the net balances of Sen. John F. Kerry (Mass.), the Democratic front-runner, and Sen. John Edwards (N.C.), Kerry's leading challenger for the nomination.

"We will never catch up," said Michael Meehan, Kerry's spokesman, noting that so far in February, Kerry had raised $5 million.

Bush is gearing up to weaken the Democratic nominee well before the general election campaign starts, using a tactic that proved highly effective for President Bill Clinton in 1996.

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Edwards, Kerry Were Barely Solvent Last Month

[buckeye1]

1. If you can't post thru the sighup,

please indicate it. The WP isn't worth the BS.

[oasis]

2. Kerry will pick up more financial participants after Super Tuesday.

The money should come rolling in.

[Cuban_Liberal]

3. Edwards coffers have begun to refill, and just in time.

His strong showing in WI last week has turned the 'money tap' on again. As Kevin Costner said in Field of Dreams, "Build it, and they will come".:)