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March Party Committee Fundraising Roundup

by: James L.

Tue Apr 21, 2009 at 5:17 AM EDT


March fundraising reports for the six major party committees:

Committee March
Receipts		 Disbursements Cash-on-Hand Debt
DCCC $10,190,728 $9,757,089 $3,347,147 $8,000,000
NRCC $5,273,648 $3,904,277 $3,221,746 $5,000,000
DSCC $5,000,000 $7,200,000 $10,800,000
NRSC $4,940,000 $2,270,000 $1,000,000
DNC $7,806,064 $6,633,684 $9,768,063 $6,650,934
RNC $6,856,391 $6,918,206 $23,939,995 $0  

Note that the DNC figure includes a $2 million transfer from the Obama campaign, which makes their March intake not so impressive compared to the RNC. (Say what you will about Michael Steele, but fundraising does not seem to be suffering too badly under his watch.) Spending tallies for the two Senate committees are also currently unavailable.

Once again the story continues to be the rather portly levels of debt held by the Dem House and Senate committees, which in aggregate are just over three times as large as the combined NRCC/NRSC debts. But the Democratic committees should be able to balance the books sooner rather than later -- especially with a major June fundraiser headlined by President Obama on the horizon.
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DCCC Disbursements and Intra-party Transfers
Is paying down debt included within disbursements?  That's the only thing I can think of that could account for such large disbursements by the DCCC.  If wrong, what are they spending the money on?

Also, didn't the RNC transfer a lot of money to the NRCC and NRSC?  If so, how are they accounted for?  Would it be a disbursement on the part of the RNC and a receipt on the part of the NRCC and NRSC?  

Well, haven't they already started airing ads against some Republicans?
the DCCC, at least.

party: Democratic, ideology: moderate, district: CT-01
[ Parent ]
That is correct
The DCCC spent about $3.5 million in March on debt payments. The rest was divided between IEs and their normal operating expenditures.
[ Parent ]
If these trends continue,
the Dem cash advantage will be smaller in 2010 than it was in 2008.  This will mean the DCCC and DSCC will need to be even more selective in the races they fund.
May be true for the DSCC
But I can't see it for the D-Trip (assuming that disbursments are mostly debt payments).  If we keep doubling their fundraising, we should have an even larger advantage (it was about 20% last cycle).
[ Parent ]
Give it time
We have our own cash cow nowadays in Obama.  As long as he stays in the high 50's-low 60's he should be able to fundraise a ton for our candidates/committees going into 2010.

Bill Clinton can also still rake in the cash for our candidates as evidence of Kendrick Meek's haul.

[ Parent ]
wrong, everybody except the
DSCC outraised their republican counterparts, two by large amounts and the DSCC was only beat by 200,000. The only reason the Republicans have more money is that they gave up at the very end of 2008 and ended the year with some cash on hand and  little debt. Democrats however maxed out, thererfore they have a lot of debt to pay off. However if they keep outraising the other committees like this they'll have much mroe cash to spend in 2010. This was the first time in living memory the DNC has outraised the RNC period. Last year Democratic Committees didn't have an overall fundraising or spending advantage, neither did they the cycle before, because the RNC crushed the DNC in fundraising. But trust me, if Bush in 2006 and 2007 could still raise over 15 million dollars Obama could easily raise 40-50 million dollars this June, easily enough to get all the campaign committees debts paid off easily with some serious cash to spare.

Call no man happy until he is dead-Aeschylus
[ Parent ]
The DSCC is barely ahead of the NRSC in total receipts
in 2010 after outspending them $162 Million to $94 Million in 2008.  It could have something to do with the transition from Schumer to Menendez, whereas the DCCC has had continuity with Van Hollen. I agree about the DNC, which will likely help out more this cycle than last in congressional races, so that could be an offsetting factor.
[ Parent ]
What's the cost-benefit of analysis for MN-Sen?
Letting Coleman drag on legal proceedings to make the NRSC cough up $$$$$ to his lawyers, versus getting that 59th seat?

party: Democratic, ideology: moderate, district: CT-01
[ Parent ]
Well
One big thing is that this is hurting Minnesota seniority-wise in the Senate.
[ Parent ]
What's the chance of the MN Supreme Court
telling Coleman to go shove it?

party: Democratic, ideology: moderate, district: CT-01
[ Parent ]
Excellent,
But only after they have gone through the process.  I think they're required to expedite the matter, but even then it should take another month or two before we get a decision.
[ Parent ]
Yeah, never mind immediacy.
They've already agreed to hear it, albeit in expedited fashion.

party: Democratic, ideology: moderate, district: CT-01
[ Parent ]
NFL legeld Alan Page is on the MN Supreme Court
So in short the answer is yes.
[ Parent ]
Wha?
Also, I meant shove it as in, immediately.  Which isn't happening.

party: Democratic, ideology: moderate, district: CT-01
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