GOP Hits Stride in Campaign Funding
From The Wall Street Journal:
Republicans are turning their political momentum into money in the bank.
GOP candidates are starting to catch up to their Democratic opponents in fund-raising efforts and have pulled ahead in some key races, finance reports for the first three months of the election year show.
The reports, filed with the Federal Election Commission before a Thursday deadline, offer evidence the GOP is heading into election season with the tools to make big gains in Congress. Republican voters are far more enthusiastic about going to the polls this fall than are Democrats, and the GOP recently took a rare lead in Gallup's so called generic ballot, which asks voters which party should win in their district.
In the nine most competitive Senate races, the reports show Republican candidates, as a group, ahead of Democrats during the January-to-March period, according to a Wall Street Journal analysis. That marks a reversal from 2009, when Democrats held the financial advantage in those races.
The reports also show that some Republicans who are trying to do one of the toughest things in American politics—oust a sitting member of the House—have found they can get financial backing to do so.
Democrats have nearly seven months and several important tools to change the dynamic. In Congress, they have pursued policies that seek to show they are challenging Wall Street, insurance companies and other big interests on behalf of consumers. The party is promoting the health-care law it enacted after a year-long struggle, and is aiming for new regulation of the financial services sector this year.
Several surveys have shown that GOP voters are far more motivated to cast ballots this fall than are Democratic voters. The "enthusiasm gap'' between the parties was 21 percentage points in a March Wall Street Journal/NBC survey.
And the GOP now leads the Democratic Party on Gallup's "generic'' ballot, which asks voters which party should win in their district, without listing candidate names. Republicans led 48% to 44% in that survey during the week ending April 11, the third week since Congress passed the health care law that the party tied or led the Democrats.
Republicans are turning their political momentum into money in the bank.
GOP candidates are starting to catch up to their Democratic opponents in fund-raising efforts and have pulled ahead in some key races, finance reports for the first three months of the election year show.
The reports, filed with the Federal Election Commission before a Thursday deadline, offer evidence the GOP is heading into election season with the tools to make big gains in Congress. Republican voters are far more enthusiastic about going to the polls this fall than are Democrats, and the GOP recently took a rare lead in Gallup's so called generic ballot, which asks voters which party should win in their district.
In the nine most competitive Senate races, the reports show Republican candidates, as a group, ahead of Democrats during the January-to-March period, according to a Wall Street Journal analysis. That marks a reversal from 2009, when Democrats held the financial advantage in those races.
The reports also show that some Republicans who are trying to do one of the toughest things in American politics—oust a sitting member of the House—have found they can get financial backing to do so.
Democrats have nearly seven months and several important tools to change the dynamic. In Congress, they have pursued policies that seek to show they are challenging Wall Street, insurance companies and other big interests on behalf of consumers. The party is promoting the health-care law it enacted after a year-long struggle, and is aiming for new regulation of the financial services sector this year.
Several surveys have shown that GOP voters are far more motivated to cast ballots this fall than are Democratic voters. The "enthusiasm gap'' between the parties was 21 percentage points in a March Wall Street Journal/NBC survey.
And the GOP now leads the Democratic Party on Gallup's "generic'' ballot, which asks voters which party should win in their district, without listing candidate names. Republicans led 48% to 44% in that survey during the week ending April 11, the third week since Congress passed the health care law that the party tied or led the Democrats.
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