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The GOP Not Looking So Good Right Now

GOP retirements in both the House and Senate since the party lost in 2006, makes the task of winning back congressional majorities daunting. Plus Republican donors are not donating.

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Polling Indicates the Republican Presidential Race Still Up for Grabs

While Hillary has a lock on the Democrat nomination, Rasmussen's poll indicates that Rudy and Fred are both, within the margin of error, in the lead for the GOP nomination. Hillary is leading in head-to-head polls against all of the top tier Republican candidates. Patrick Ruffini is theorizing that the nature of the center right political blogosphere could be better structured to positively impact GOP 2008 chances, a very interesting read. He has a great example here of the superior Democrat fundraising operation.

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Q3 GOP Candidate Fundraising Figures

The Republican Party has a real horse race happening among its 3/4 top tier presidential candidates. Mitt Romney, Rudy Giuliani, Fred Thompson and John McCain have each reported their Q3 fundraising totals. Basically, Fred Thompson did really well with fundraising considering that he was only a declared candidate for 24 days in Q3. Fred Thompson raised $9.3M, and all in all, did the best of the top 4. Rudy raised $11M. Mitt Romney raised $18+M but had to loan himself $8.5M of his own money (why does he need to keep giving his own campaign money??).

Fred Thompson has the fastest money raising rate. I know this is anecdotal, so take it for what it's worth, but in our family the 6 or so voting members were all positively impressed with Fred's announcement of his candidacy on the Jay Leno show:

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With Hillary and Bill Clinton, It's Always Groundhog Day

You are not going to believe this, but Hillary Clinton, who we recently found out, got (and had to return) $850,000 from corrupt Norman Hsu has taken money from another Ponzi-schemer, Keith Raniere (insert sarc tag here). Surprise, surprise, another unvetted, bundling campaign contributor.

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MoveOn.org & Other Things

Hugh Hewitt has a link rich post this morning, full of important things:

"Radioblogger has the key transcripts from yesterday's MoveOn.org rally to change the Constitution by adding a super-majority vote on judicial nominations...Pay particular attention to Barbara Boxer's explicit discussion of what the Dems are up to...Instapundit immediately saw the importance of the Boxer blurt."

"Ryan Sager's column from the New York Post on campaign finance reform needs wide dissemination."

"Many great posts on the effort to save Terri Schiavo's life around the blogosphere, including What'sTheRumpus and OkieontheLaminLA...TerrisFight is here, and LordofthePeeps has a touching and inspiring post as well."

There's a BlogForTerri too.

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