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April 16, 2010 10:44 PM UTC
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Like his fundraising was far below expectations, or hopes. I supposed it’s possible that it was so much better than expected that they want to hold off, but why risk some other story coming up to push off any good news?
They would be crowing about it, as they should. There is no strategic advantage to NOT telling people you raised a lot of money. This can only be bad news.
His money is more pure than anyone else’s. Even if there isn’t much of it.
True that! I suppose “pure” money spends differently than normal money–I must have missed the memo. 😉
Realistically, I think that it means bad news financially. I wonder if there is a point at which he concedes he couldn’t win the general and finds a reasonably graceful way to withdraw?
He’s in it for the long haul.
Hell, Bennet could get run over by a truck tomorrow.
What does that mean?
Though I must say I’m honored I am in your thoughts.
But if your 2 year old puts it in his mouth it’s OK because it isn’t dirty like ordinary money? There’s your up side for you. You can eat off my bills.
it’s gonna be HUGE
The money is counted. The report is in to the FEC. The news cycle for Senate finances is now. Waiting to release good numbers would be almost as smart as (re)focusing on the photoshopped banner.
No Romanoff Rope-a-Dope?
It actually is good news and the campaign does not want to bury it on a Friday. (Giving them the benefit of the doubt here.)
Arguing with myself for a second, they why didn’t they release the numbers earlier this week? They certainly had them tabulated.
OK, I’m done arguing with myself.
They wanted to leave this week clear for the Photoshopping story. That’s savvy media management!
Yep, let the photoshopping story run its course. Even give it some legs.
on that story!
Actually, I won’t believe it unless you have video of the AR team doing the photoshopping.
ZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ.
As you might recall, last time I asked him when he was going to produce a copy of his birth certificate.
At first I was thinking, why wait so long that the Post can call and ask, opening the door for the ‘next week, we promise’ line.
Then I was wondering if maybe they didn’t want to do it when they were getting reamed on the photoshop silliness, but if the numbers were good, wouldn’t they have released them yesterday or the day before to both nip that story in the bud, and continue the Romentum from assemblies.
If the numbers were good, the news would have buried the photoshop story.
Romanoff is in town today. I should have gone to coffee this morning.
Instead, I slept in.
and hope for one of those machines that generates a 48 million dollar error. That would get him through the primary with a tidy wad left over. Of course the chances of that are at best shall we say slim. It wouldn’t technically be pure money because it was gambling tainted but at least it wouldn’t be purely evil PAC money.
That’s exactly what Fred Smith founder of Fedex did when his business was on the ropes in 1973:
Seriously, I suspect the weekend will be one of soul-searching and deep conversations with friends, family and key supporters.
You’ve been saying it for so long.
To still be predicting it makes me wonder if you were ever serious.
The sarcasm on this blog runs deep.
I’m so confused.
AR did well at the DYD debate.
AR won the caucus.
AR did well at the assemblies.
He’s got a core of loyal support, including the party officials and a boatload of elected officials.
Etc and so on.
HUGE.
…Why haven’t they publicized it yet?
seem to know why they do anything . . .
If he did have big numbers to announce and was waiting for a new news cycle (Mon) you’d think that they would put a few teasers out there which would lead to some positive press before the actual announcement. However I don’t think that will be the case. AR is toast
I thought you were kidding. Romanoff raised no money. Talk to any staffer and they’ll tell you. Not a single one of them is getting paid. It’s a BS campaign all the way through.
Here’s how it works: First you raise money. Then you hire people. Romanoff is a screwball amateur. His job was to raise money and he has failed to do that, despite being a known quantity. He’s a rotten employer. He’ll be a rotten senator. He should run for Coffman’s seat or some shit, cut his teeth on a real campaigning. Then come back to us.
Screw him for now. He’s an incompetent.
Romanoff has an office full of staff.
Are you Ray Springfield’s new sock puppet? Your comments are about as insulting and confusing.
Doesn’t count as staff.
and your comments are completely inane showing that you are nothing more than a coward that hides behind anonymity.
You can’t handle the truth,
as Andrew’s imperial lizard of the AR anonymous klan: A new hate group.
AR did well at the DYD debate.
AR won the caucus.
AR did well at the assemblies.
He’s got a core of loyal support, including the party officials and a boatload of elected officials.
That’s 32 grand less than Romanoff raised last quarter for a Senate race.
But he did say in an article yesterday that this quarter would be his best to date. Can’t wait to see what he considers “best.”
like the one he did reaffirming his senate bid.
Good tactic to appeal to the masses … again.
Another angle Romo’s media barons might explore is to remind the people its about hope and change … and he’ll commit to delivering it versus standing around for a year, dick in hand.
quite that way.
But Libertad does have a way with words, doesn’t he?
have a rather one-handed quality to it, doesn’t it?
that way they aren’t distracted from trying to actually do their jobs and work on creative solutions to our most difficult issues.
What’s the difference between Libby and a Twinkie? Twinkies also have no substance but they do have calories so if you want to lose weight reading Libby is marginally better than eating Twinkies. They both have the same level of quality but Twinkies can kill you.
gives them too much credit 😉
is that you lose 30 seconds of your life that you will never get back and in return you experience moments that are totally devoid of substance.
I guess it works in a Zen sort of way where you get to experience a moment of negation totally devoid of content. Come to think of it it might actually be kind of enlightening when you experience reality again. Kind of like experiencing sound after silence. It might be good to read Libby just to give your mind a rest. With no substance there is nothing to tax the mind. A gentle rest from the daily grind of trying to find meaning in Romanoff’s campaign.
Its like reading a non-cleaver unpleasant koan
in a manner of speaking. I mean, there’s no earthly reason to delay making public what people are assuming to be the case.
I know we like to make light of things, but this campaign is quickly approaching Beauprez-like levels of political malpractice. What’s sad is that it didn’t have to be like this, at all.
that it’s not like this across the board – for example, they’ve been pretty good at scoring victories in the caucuses and assemblies. And Romanoff’s a great candidate on the stump. But ye gods, the strategic direction has been lacking.
Somebody other than me siad that staff doesn’t amtter
If the numbers suck, wouldn’t it be best to release them right now or tomorrow morning? The waiting till Monday is a little weird for bad numbers. If the numbers are really good, then getting everyone to expect awful would have an even bigger impact.
On the flip side, after seeing how badly they handled the PhotoShop story, doing this the wrong way would not surprise me…
If the numbers were good, it would have blunted the photoshop story. If the numbers were bad, it would have been folded into the photoshop story and turned it into a Romanoff having a bad week story–thereby blunting the photoshop story.
In the Post story, they didn’t commit to a day:
running until next Friday?
Hours since Romanoff campaign filed FEC report but hasn’t revealed totals to public: 19
However it’s sounding more and more like they wish it would just go away.
should have its own countdown clock. But maybe they can issue a press release saying the clock is staying. And then the next day another release saying they’re sorry it offended some people, so it has been taken down, but any insinuations about the clock are outrageous and false.
Romanoff releasing his 1st quarter numbers or McInnis releasing his tax returns.
n/t
on fire RG
for a document dump that you don’t want many people to know about. Even here, hardly anyone posts on the weekend, and most stories are forgotten in a day or two.
I posted Pat Caddell on a weekend and he became a former volunteer shortly thereafter.
I said “hardly” and “most” and “standard.” Your Caddell diary was an exception.
If they sent Mike Riley over to the Secretary of the Senate’s office he could have gotten the report in person.
and leaving the office, riding the elevator down, and walking 3 blocks.
What kind of Post reporter would do that?
She breathlessly waits for Dick Wadhams to email her the current talking points.
Actually the AR campaign might have mailed the damned thing in, which could take weeks to show up.
However both the FEC and the Secretary of the Senate have issued advisories that reports should not be mailed because they have been getting destroyed at the USPS’s irradiating facility, so the acceptable methods of delivery have been reduced to overnight delivery (UPS/FedEx), courier, and hand-delivery.
The law is specific about the report being “postmarked” by the deadline, so if they used FedEx or UPS like they’ve been told to, it has to be received by the deadline, because FedEx and UPS can’t postmark anything.
“The USPS ate my FEC report”?