What does it all mean that the leading Democratic candidates and, on the Republican side, Mitt Romney, have raised so much money this soon into the presidential campaign season -- or that Sen. John McCain is panicking at trailing not just Romney but his own expectations?
Sen. Clinton has raised $26 million in the first quarter of the year. Sen. Obama has come on strong, "nipping at her heels," as one TV news anchor put it, with $25 million raised this quarter in a shorter period of actual fundraising. John Edwards has raised $14 million.
While McCain, the presumed frontrunner according to pundits and his own sense of self, raised $12.5 millon, that was dwarfed by Romney's $20 million. New York's former mayor, Rudy Giuliani, has raised $15 million.
For now, it's the ability to raise money that seems to influence news coverage of who's on first in each party. But I want to hear a whole lot more about issues and less about money and popularity and star quality.
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My feelings echo yours.
In the end I just hope the "good" candidates can play the game well enough to succeed but not so well that they become "the bad guys."
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