From the LA Times April 21, 2004
http://www.latimes.com/news/politics/2004/la-na-cash21apr21,1,7740169.story?coll=la-center-elect2004"Bush Campaign Spent Monthly Record of $50 Million in March
The president still has $86 million after an ad blitz against Kerry. Polls show gains over his rival."
CNN March 4, 2004
http://www.cnn.com/2004/ALLPOLITICS/03/04/elec04.prez.main/"Bush raised $800,000 at his evening appearance in Los Angeles,
adding to the more than $140 million his campaign has raised so far. He has about $104 million on hand.
The Kerry campaign has a fraction of that amount."
CBS News March 19. 2004
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2004/03/19/politics/main607411.shtml"Bush Campaign Hits $170M Goal
A Bush spokesman declined to say whether the president will soon stop holding fund-raisers for himself. Many supporters think he could easily take in $200 million.
President Bush's fund-raising juggernaut has reached its goal of raising $150 million to $170 million, a record campaign fortune the Bush campaign is starting to tap for ads costing millions of dollars.
Mr. Bush started March with $110 million in the bank to use against Democratic nominee-to-be John Kerry as Kerry emerged from the primaries."
USA Today April 19, 2004
http://www.usatoday.com/news/politicselections/nation/president/2004-04-19-bush-campaign-spending_x.htm"Bush's campaign spending rises to a hefty $98M
WASHINGTON —
President Bush has spent $98 million in his re-election campaign, nearly as much as he spent to win the Republican nomination four years ago.
In a report to be filed with the Federal Election Commission today, Bush discloses that he raised $184.4 million by the end of March, and his campaign had $86.6 million in the bank.
The spending — rivaling the $101 million he spent in 2000 — reflects heavy television ad buying in February and March, when the campaign put on a blitz aimed at shaping an unfavorable image of Kerry in voters' minds. The campaign also has been building an organization in key states."
Washington Post May 31, 2004
http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A3222-2004May30?language=printer"Scholars and political strategists say
the ferocious Bush assault on Kerry this spring has been extraordinary, both for the volume of attacks and for the liberties the president and his campaign have taken with the facts. Though stretching the truth is hardly new in a political campaign, they say the volume of negative charges is unprecedented -- both in speeches and in advertising.
Three-quarters of the ads aired by Bush's campaign have been attacks on Kerry.
Bush so far has aired 49,050 negative ads in the top 100 markets, or 75 percent of his advertising. Kerry has run 13,336 negative ads -- or 27 percent of his total. The figures were compiled by The Washington Post using data from the Campaign Media Analysis Group of the top 100 U.S. markets. Both campaigns said the figures are accurate."
New York Times August 21, 2004
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=F10815F63D5A0C728EDDA10894DC404482"President Bush increased his campaign spending (in July) to the highest levels since March,
laying out almost $46 million as his organization escalated television advertising in an effort to limit any gains that Senator John Kerry may have made by choosing Senator John Edwards as his running mate"
Kerry has survived all of the above, he can make it past the GOP hatefest too. Cheer up, now damn it, we have work to do.
Can I get an "Amen!"?
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