{"id":1164,"date":"2006-07-28T07:06:57","date_gmt":"2006-07-28T07:06:57","guid":{"rendered":"0"},"modified":"2006-09-28T12:09:50","modified_gmt":"2006-09-28T12:09:50","slug":"pay_no_attentio","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/?p=1164","title":{"rendered":"Pay No Attention To That Man Behind The Curtain…"},"content":{"rendered":"

Wow. Think about this for a moment.<\/p>\n

For all the press that the netroots has gathered, looking at the actual fundraising in the two most-hyped “netroots” races is telling.Connecticut<\/a>:<\/p>\n

Lieberman:<\/p>\n

Raised:<\/b>$8,464,769
\nSpent:<\/b>\t$5,280,920
\nCash on hand:<\/b>$4,279,088
\nLast Report:<\/b>6\/30\/2006<\/p>\n

Lamont:<\/p>\n

Raised:<\/b>$2,792,683
\nSpent:<\/b>$2,515,856
\nCash on hand:<\/b>$276,976
\nLast Report:<\/b>6\/30\/2006<\/p>\n

Note that Lamont has given $1,501,500 of the $2,792,683 his campaign has raised; Lieberman has given $0.<\/p>\n

Virginia<\/a>:<\/p>\n

Allen:<\/p>\n

Raised:<\/b>$12,236,651
\nSpent:<\/b>$5,707,657
\nCash on hand:<\/b>$6,617,620
\nLast Report:<\/b>6\/30\/2006<\/p>\n

Webb:<\/p>\n

Raised:<\/b>$1,135,819
\nSpent:<\/b>$711,663
\nCash on hand:<\/b>$424,245
\nLast Report:<\/b>6\/30\/2006<\/p>\n

Note that Webb has given $100,000 of the $1,135,819 his campaign has raised; Allen has given $0.<\/p>\n

Money isn’t everything in campaigns, and personally, I’m unhappy that it matters as much as it does. I generally support stronger limits on campaign giving and spending (yeah, yeah, I know, 1st Amendment – but why should a zillionaire’s voice matter a zillion times as much as a dolleraire’s).<\/p>\n

But the interesting thing to me is that after a major push by the ‘roots, and massive national press, neither campaign has raised serious money.<\/p>\n

I keep thinking back to the 90’s when the press would anoint three guys in sweaters and t-shirts working in a shared office as The Next Big Thing and all kinds of good things would happen – VC money, buyouts, etc.<\/p>\n

But when it came time to actually build businesses, there was often less than met the eye.<\/p>\n

As one of the guys in sweaters and t-shirts this time around, it behooves me to think hard about that.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Here’s some interesting data on the effectiveness of internet politics.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1164"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1164"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1164\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1164"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1164"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1164"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}