CA-Sen: Chuck DeVore’s Money BOMB
When I saw similar tweets last night, I thought that with Scott Brown’s election in Massachusetts and his ability to raise massive amounts of campaign cash online and at the last minute, Chuck DeVore had finally hit on a way to bolster his anemic fundraising.
From Chuck DeVore Campaign’s online media staffer, Justin Hart’s twitter stream
The money bomb effort is just another WEAK fundraising effort. So, with all of the hoopla and spam-like tweeting it is to raise a mere 60K.
Doesn’t DeVore understand that ONE week for California television advertising costs up to $3 million? California statewide direct mail to millions of voters costs a ton? And, that DeVore has only a few hundred of thousands in the bank (although the official report will not be out until next week) even though he has been campaigning for the United States Senate for over a year. For example, DeVore’s Republican opponent Carly Fiorina has raised $1.1 million in just two months of candidacy and Marco Rubio in Florida raised $1.75 million in the fourth quarter of 2009.
Look at how DeVore’s money bomb has been doing (as of last night):
This morning he is up to a whopping $26,008. Not much movement there, folks.
With California Field Poll numbers at 6 per cent compared to Carly Fiorina at 25 per cent and Tom Campbell at 30 per cent, DeVore must be able to adverrtise in order to win. Add this with the fact that Californians do NOT know who he is – the same Field Poll has 81 per cent of Republicans have NO OPINION on his candidacy, he must spend the money to campaign advertise.
While DeVore’s money bomb appears to be a BOMB, more power to him, if he can successfully fundraise. If not, then Chuck DeVore WILL be beat like a drum come June election time.
Maybe Chuck should withdraw from this race and not waste his time and his donor’s money on a fruitless pursuit of election?
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