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December 28th, 2007 at 4:17 pm
Who has any extra money these days? Im suprised these numbers are even as high as they are. With the Christmas season spending and gas bills through the roof, no one has any money to spend on politicians.
And whats up with Hillary’s low amount? I know Deval is supporting Obama and has helped fundraising for him, but Id still expect Hillary to have raised at least a million bucks.
December 31st, 2007 at 10:13 am
I have to agree. In these times where everyone is tight on cash, and especially during the holidays, I’m sure presidential donations were on the bottom of people’s lists. Especially given the rash of elections we have had this past year. I think people are only willing to give so much… It will be interesting to see how much the fundraising picks up as we get closer to super Tuesday.
December 31st, 2007 at 7:59 pm
Might be interesting to graph median income per city/town vs campaign contributions. I imagine Lowell would be typical of the graph.
Up here in Merrimack, NH, we’ve been carpet-bombed with phone calls. We let the answering machine handle them. Some of the callers are very persistent calling up several times with the same recorded message.
January 1st, 2008 at 1:48 am
After hearing what these poor people go through in places such as Iowa and New Hampshire, Im glad our primary isn’t really all that important! The last thing I want is my phone ringing off the hook and 10 pieces of campaign literature mailed each day. Its rather ridiculous what it has come to today.
January 2nd, 2008 at 11:32 am
I don’t mind live callers or door knockers, after all that should be the heart of democracy (volunteers hitting the ground and/or phones to talk to people about their candidate). Recorded messages and most of the mail stuff is blegch. How many trees must die for the presidential race??
But ’nuff said…we get a modicum of exposure here on the networks that are Boston based and play in NH, and even that’s more than plenty. Today while watching the morning news, I saw Romney ad attacking McCain, then less than a minute later a McCain ad attacking Romney. Zoinks!
January 5th, 2008 at 12:16 pm
N.H. residents flooded with calls, mailings from candidates
“I am so sick and tired of being called by somebody saying ‘I’d like to ask you two questions,’” said Norman Verrier, of Nashua. “They call all the time: early in the morning, late at night. I say stop calling and they say ‘We’ll take you off the list but it will take 30 days.’ Thirty days – they’ll be out of town by then!”
Verrier has been in the area since 1972, so he has seen a lot of campaigns.
“But not as bad as this, nothing close to this,” he said. “I can’t wait until it’s over!”
http://www.nashuatelegraph.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080105/NEWS08/728161050