The cynic in me says, the number one reason to be optimistice about our chances is:

[Political Heretic]

$ Money $

Money wins elections.

McCain doesn't have any. Obama's got it in spades.


The caveat to this is: The DNC, sadly, does not have money. And the RNC has three times as much.

But I think that, once again, the candidate with the most money will win.

[DerekJ]

1. McCain has money because the RNC has money.

[Political Heretic]

2. McCain and the RNC combined don't have as much money as Obama.

The RNC has about 30million to the DNC's 5 or something like that.

[DerekJ]

3. They probably have more..$45 million is the number on BO website . compared to BO 30 + million.

[Political Heretic]

10. Politico: GOP Fears Obama's Money Machine (this is my point)

With Hillary Clinton’s campaign coming to an end this weekend, Barack Obama’s rise as the Democratic nominee brings serious bad news to a new group: John McCain’s finance team.

A review of campaign finance data offers not one ounce of good news and barely any hope for the McCain campaign’s ability to compete with Obama’s fundraising prowess.

To make matters worse, Obama’s campaign, which raised $272 million through April for the primary, now is reaching out to Clinton’s fundraisers, who raised another $200 million through April, in an effort to unite forces and bury the historically deep-pocketed Republicans.

Take a look at some of the numbers:

• If each of Obama’s donors gave him a modest $250, he’d have $375 million to spend during the two-month general election sprint. That’s $186 million a month, $47 million a week.

• During the same September to Nov. 4 period, McCain will have about $85 million to spend since he has decided to take taxpayer money to help finance his campaign activities.

• The Republican National Committee, which is charged with closing the gap between McCain and Obama, has $40 million in cash. Obama raised almost as much — $31 million — from just his small donors in the month of February. His total for the month, $57 million, exceeded the RNC’s cash balance.

• Obama has more than 1.5 million donors; McCain has a few hundred thousand. If just a million of Obama’s donors sent him the maximum donation, $2,300, he could raise $2.3 billion.

(more)
http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0608/10868.html

[Selatius]

4. The RNC damn near broke their bank trying to fight for a House seat they lost...in Mississippi. nt

[WilliamPitt]

5. Hey...that makes me fucking ecstatic.

Winning actually doesn't suck.

Believe it.

[glowing]

6. The DNC has no money because a lot of us have said, we gave you some

mandates and you took them off the table.. So, the lack of funds are because of Pelosi and Reed... Now that Obama is appealing to everyone to donate, people may start.. He really can't do it alone.. we need that money for down ticket candidates that will make it much easier to pass progressive initiatives.

[Honeycombe8]

7. McCain won the GOP nomination w/o money. Obama won IA w/far less $ than Clinton.

Money counts. But money isn't everything.

You know how "they" say that money doesn't buy happiness? In an election, it doesn't buy a win. But it does buy freedom from worry. The candidate is freer to apply any strategy, and that helps a lot.

[Political Heretic]

8. Neither of those are generals.

[ensho]

9. who counts the votes - names the winner

nt