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Kerry Boosts Record War Chest to $180M

TUESDAY JULY 6 2004 11:30 AM

Submitted by Dr_Zoidberg. Edited By legionnaire.

John Kerry, Democratic front runner for the 2004 Presidential Election, has broken the record for the most amount of Presidential Cantidate campaign funds, raising $180 million for his campaign.

He has about a month of fund raising left before he receives about $75 million in taxpayer funding for the general-election campaign, which starts July 29 when he is nominated at the Democratic convention in Boston. That's the only money Kerry will be allowed to spend campaigning until the Nov. 2 election.

While this total is very impressive, President Bush is predicted to raise $250 million, surpassing the previous election's total of $105 million.

Bush has about a month longer than Kerry to raise and spend private campaign donations. He also is expected to accept government funding for the general campaign and will receive his check after he is nominated in New York in early September.

With these record setting totals, this is sure to be a great election, not like the fiasco that happened in the 2000 election.

8 Comments

legionnaire

United Kingdom

November 2003

JUL 06, 2004 11:32 AM

My question is, who are all of these people they are trying to convince? It would seem that the "swing voter" demographic has shrunk significantly since the last election.

Trevallion

Murfreesboro, TN

February 2004

JUL 06, 2004 12:02 PM

Such a waste of taxpayer money to give to these guys so they can insult each other in TV commercials.

legionnaire
It would seem that the "swing voter" demographic has shrunk significantly since the last election.

Yeah, I think the "my vote doesn't count so what does it matter who I vote for?" mentality went away after the last election, and people are realizing that this is not the election to be throwing your vote away on a whim.

ChrisSick

Philadelphia, PA

March 2008

JUL 06, 2004 02:22 PM

can we even pretend we have a democracy anymore? this is a fucking joke, two-hundred and fifty million dollars going to issue ads and negative campaigning. Bush has shown us what he believes and where he stands, he doesn't need hundreds of millions to muddy the issues by telling people he believes in education when he has something like "no child left behind" to show us exactly where he stands. as for kerry... well half his ideas seem to be one-liners and empty promises, pipe dreams like a seven dollar an hour minimum wage.

this kind of money and these kind of campaigns serve only to muddy the issues and effectifly turn any attempt at public debate into thirty-second soundbite spots, usually consisting of blurry footage of a canidate saying something stupid ten or twenty or thirty years ago. we should be elevating the the public debate, making it about issues, about actual debate instead of kerry calling bush a draft-dodger and bush accusing him of not deserving medals from a war that happened twenty years before some of the electorate was even born.

SuperScott

Riverside, CA

November 2002

JUL 06, 2004 04:14 PM

He also is expected to accept government funding for the general campaign

i am willing to put money down that he wont take the funding. he hasnt done it in the past, and wont do it this time.

jholtsnider

I'm lost

February 2004

JUL 06, 2004 04:17 PM

Trevallion said:
Such a waste of taxpayer money to give to these guys so they can insult each other in TV commercials.

legionnaire
It would seem that the "swing voter" demographic has shrunk significantly since the last election.

You know, I thought so too... And then I went into a sociology class in June where the professor got up and started talking about what a waste voting was because individual votes don't matter...

That mentality is alive and well. So... please, please, please VOTE! Vote Democrat, Republican, Green, Whig, I don't care, but please VOTE!

edited to fix my horrible spelling...

[Edited on Jul 06, 2004 by slimjim]

Stirfry

Cleveland, OH

September 2002

JUL 06, 2004 05:02 PM

SuperScott said:

He also is expected to accept government funding for the general campaign

i am willing to put money down that he wont take the funding. he hasnt done it in the past, and wont do it this time.

Kerry will tho. like the cash from both his wifes. doh! you can take that to the bank... with some Heinz 57 on it! lol.

_SEVEN_

Atlanta, GA

December 2003

JUL 06, 2004 06:12 PM

Well, looks like Bush will be able to buy more than Florida this year.

wofats

Manitou Springs, CO

April 2004

JUL 06, 2004 07:44 PM

You know the reason behind public funding for campaigns is to allow people without means to still run for office. Not saying it works out that way, but that is the idea. How about having public funding only, but capping what can be spent on a campaign? Say no candidate can spend over $75 mil. But I admit it would be hard to control private supporters from spending to promote their candidate... So maybe it's not that great of an idea after all. ;-)