2008 TEA LEAVES

(Via Firedoglake)

The GOP isn't drawing in the big bucks like it used to:


GOP has uphill climb for cash and candidates
The party feels the drag of investigations and
minority status in Congress. And then there's Bush.

By Michael Finnegan, LA Times Staff Writer
April 29, 2007
With GOP clout diminished after November's election losses, the Republicans' national committee and their House and Senate campaign committees together raised the same amount as the Democrats in the first quarter of the year — and Democrats ended the period with more cash in the bank. At this point four years ago, Republicans had more than twice the money Democrats did.