The DCCC continues to out-raise the NRCC despite the fact that the Republicans have considerably more seats and that it’s easier for the GOP to collect large donations. This isn’t a bad development, but I’d caution against reading too much into it. Much of the money funding the right is going into PACs and Super PACs rather than straight into the party’s coffers. Also, they don’t have a president to do fundraisers for them.
I think, rather than seeing this as some kind of advantage for the Democrats, we should view it as indicating other things. For example, the Democrats as a whole have more confidence and faith in their party leadership than the Republican base has in their leadership. The Dems are less fractured.
Also, and relatedly, the GOP donor class is more interested than the Dem donor class is running their own show. They’ve learned not only from the party’s past poor performance but also from entrusting their money to ineffectual insiders like Karl Rove.
I don’t think the left is out-raising the right, but they’re doing better at raising money through the traditional channels.
What that means is that with Republicans the PACs and SuperPACs can control the message and screen the candidates; the party must respond to those shifts. With the Democrats, the incumbents who control the DCCC control the message and selection of candidates (unless a candidate has a strong independent source of support).
That is a recipe for a continued stalemate or rightward tilt.
The left has little money to contribute to politicians who either risk failure at the polls or turn against small donors once elected. Were burnt too many times before the 2007 meltdown and because of the meltdown too few have money to spare.
Large-money lefty donors is a contradiction at some level.
Small donors on the left can always be rung for more money. All you have to do is point out that not giving your money and your vote might get a President Palin or Huckabee… and thus not supporting the party means siding with bigots.
Then they will vote, just smear them and sit back. As long as not voting/donating is letting a bigot win the Democratic party could campaign on privatizing social security and still get it’s base through screaming about social issues and cultural identity pressure.
If’n they don’t have the money, they can’t be rung. That’s the point I’m making.
The DCCC continues to out-raise the NRCC despite the fact that the Republicans have considerably more seats and that it’s easier for the GOP to collect large donations.
As TarheelDem said, it has its good and bad sides. The bad being that the party apparatus is in hock to those with the money.
the Dems raise from regular people for the most part.