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Originally Posted by jacqueline trudeau  One thing that heartens me is that the Obama camp knows how to run a campaign for every state. |
That is actually part of their problem. That is causing them to bleed money, because of all the payroll and infrastructure expenses. Obama went back on his word on public financing so he has to spend time fundraising instead of campaigning. We are in the middle of a financial crisis this week he was in Hollywood at $28,500 a plate dinner with a bunch of Hollywood Celebs.
Expenditures Breakdown, Barack Obama | OpenSecrets The Weekly Standard Quote:
The $52 million figure may not be a disaster for the Obama campaign, but it is hardly a success. Not just because it's far below what the Obama campaign projected in June. It's a disappointment because it includes general election contributions from those who had previously maxed out. Remember also that unlike the money McCain is raising, which has to be spent by the time he receives $84 million in public financing, Obama's money needs to last all the way through the election.
With a burn rate of $42 million a month, Obama's campaign can just barely sustain its current levels of spending. And what's leftover may not be adequate to run the kind of campaign he needs to win. Just consider despite all the money he's raised, Obama has been outspent on television by 3 to 1 in the last two months. All the stagecraft and theatrics has come with a hefty cost.
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In the last month, Obama has hired dozens if not hundreds of staffers, and his National Field Coordinator said the campaign anticipates deploying more than 2,000 paid staffers to every state in the country. Sending 15 paid staffers to Texas might make a good sound bite, but politically speaking, it is flushing money down the toilet. A paid staff of 2,000 is unheard of in the history of presidential elections. Consider that it's five times larger than Bush's campaign staff in 2004, which is the next biggest ever assembled. Indeed, Obama will have more people working on his campaign than President Bush currently has in the whole White House. And if Obama spends like this when he needs to raise the money himself, one can only imagine what he'll do when he can instead tap the tax coffers of the U.S. Treasury.
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He seems like the type of wasteful bureaucrat we can't trust with our money.