Kerry/Bush Money Stats

[newsguyatl]

KERRY

Cash on hand (as of 5/31/04): $27,734,977.62

Raised in May: $30,777,512.01
Raised thru 5/31/04: $148,512,474.09 ($2,650,000.00 from his Senate committee; $6,387,965.80 in personal loans)

Spent in May: $32,081,689.58
Spent thru 5/31/04: $120,777,496.47

May burn rate: 104%
overall campaign burn rate: 81%


BUSH

Cash on hand (as of 5/31/04): $63,062,645.88

Raised in May: $13,349,397.13
Raised thru 5/31/04: $214,770,597.34

Spent in May: $21,913,101.46
Spent thru 5/31/04: $151,707,951.46

May burn rate: 164%
overall campaign burn rate: 71%


Source: CNN

[charlie105]

1. Kerry's already spent $120 mil??? On what?

[AndyTiedye]

2. Maybe Kerry Has to Pay a Lot More for Ads than Bush*

He certainly hasn't been running that many.

Or is it possible that stations are taking his money and either not
running the ads at all or running them all in the middle of the night?

Seems like he's spent almost all of his money and gotten very little from it.

This is very, very bad.

I can't give any more, I'm at the legal limit. It is likely that Dems
are pretty-well tapped-out to have raised this much.

[tom_paine]

3. Correct. Where HAS ALL THAT MONEY GONE???

Yes, it's VERY VERY VERY BAD!

And yes, in the Orwellian Corruption of Modern Imperial Amerika, it is also VERY possible that the Bushevik Loyalists (perhaps even without knowledge of their actions) are subverting or ignoring Kerry's paid-for ad buys.

But the Two-Tiered Charges for Ads seems in keeping with the Unfair and Totalitarian nature of Imperial Amerika, too.

[obnoxiousdrunk]

4. Kerry has

an Ad running now on healthcare. Looks pretty good.