Obama lost many donors from '08 presidential race

[XemaSab]

President Barack Obama has lost millions of dollars in support from former donors in Democratic strongholds and districts that he won narrowly four years ago.

An Associated Press analysis found tens of thousands of supporters who gave Obama cash in the early stages of his last campaign have held out this time. And a handful have given to Republican candidates.

Obama's re-election effort is hardly hurting for cash: His campaign and the Democratic Party has raised more than $70 million for his re-election since July, and the campaign boasts a million contributors.

At the same time, one Republican front-runner, Mitt Romney, has closed in financially in areas of the country that gave a solid stream of checks to Obama in the 2008 campaign, including Southern California, Florida and New England.



Read more: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2011/10/27/national/w190421D88.DTL#ixzz1c3EFUZzy

[appleannie1]

1. I intend on donating now that I have saved enough to pay my property taxes.

[bluestateguy]

2. Strikes me as false

And anything that claims "and Associated Press analysis..." as a source of research is likely a load of crap.

[Kurmudgeon]

3. I'm sure the Bushs and the Koch Brothers and so many others right wingers hope so.

[jaysunb]

4. When's the election ?

:evilfrown:

[Tx4obama]

6. More than ONE YEAR from now :) n/t

[Tx4obama]

5. An article in July 2011 said: Obama Nets 260,000 First-Time Donors

And right now there have been a total of over ONE MILLIONS folks that have donated.

I do not think there is a problem at all.

I'm sure many of the folks that haven't yet WILL donate for 2012, it's just still early and Obama is not in full swing campaign mode yet :)

[Historic NY]

7. Well he has hit 1 million donors.....and is blowing the GOP out of the water.

http://www.thegrio.com/politics/obama-shows-fundraising-power-republicans-spar.php

http://www.opensecrets.org/pres12/index.php

[phylny]

8. Eh, bogus.

I donated last election, and will donate now. It's too early yet. He's not actively campaigning, there is no Republican challenger (hahaha), and when the time comes, the donations will come.