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Sometimes I offer advice to candidates.
When you are trying to shake a story about felon-fundraisers, don’t hold fundraisers at the home of people convicted of extortion who steal elections. We are talking about Raul Martinez, the former mayor of Hialeah, Florida with a shady past. Back in 1991 Martinez, was convicted of extortion and [...]

Jim Geraghty posts the Thompson defense of their "disappointing" fundraising numbers. I, frankly, don’t know what to make of all of this, but I have two thoughts.
First, people are comparing John McCain, Mitt Romney, and Rudy Giuliani’s fundraising numbers to Fred Thompson’s. Simply, these are apples and oranges. McCain and Romney had been running for [...]

In Q1, the refrain from the 2nd tier was that the only fundraising number that really matters is Q2 Cash on Hand. The reasoning for that was Ames. The amount of money that a campaign has right now limits the amount of money it can spend at Ames, and there’s a linear relationship between the [...]

In Q1, Mike Huckabee’s fundraising team disappointed. Looks like he did it in Q2 also:
Republican Mike Huckabee raised $764,000 for his presidential campaign from April through June and had $437,000 cash on hand at the end of last month, according to financial reports filed Sunday.
The former Arkansas governor spent nearly $703,000 during those three months. [...]

Details from Mike DuHaime on Rudy Giuliani:

60k donors. Thinks that this can grow. Lower than McCain’s and Romney’s.

$33m raised for this cycle
$11m spent in Q2
$18m CoH and $0 debt
"Finance numbers catching up polling numbers"

Campaign contnuing to grow:

Active in 12 states
"Only candidate who can win the general election"

Can pick up NJ. CT, [...]

Update: $2m was raised for the general. That means that he raised $15m primary  money in Q2 and has $16m in the bank for the primary.
Details coming soon.  This means that he spent $10m, about half of what Romney spent. And raised $4m more than Romney. And has $6m more in the bank.
Oh yeah, and [...]

Ok. Mitt Romney was supposed to be the money king. But he only raised $2.8m more than John McCain, according to AP.  Between Q1 and Q2 Romney raised, including the $9m from himself, about $44m. And now he has $12m COH.
That means that Romney spent $32m, with about $20m in Q2.
And CBS still puts him [...]

Now that John McCain’s disappointing numbers are out, there are still a couple more interesting questions remaining:

Mitt Romney versus Rudy Giuliani:

 What does it mean if Rudy raises more money than he did in Q1, but Romney raises less? That seems to be the conventional wisdom.
If Romney has a McCainiac burn-rate, that would leave Rudy with [...]

Ryan Sager has the info. John McCain’s campaign fired about 50 staff, raised $11.2 CoH, and has $2m CoH. That means that they spent about $13m in Q2. Where did that go?
Apparently, the strategy is to focus on New Hampshire and South Carolina. I assume this means that they will pull out of Iowa.
I assume [...]

Pop quiz for all you wannabe political strategists. If you had a campaign leader who, according to today’s Salt Lake Trib,  was named as a defendant in a suit alleging that at a school he ran:
[S]tudents were forced to eat their own vomit, clean toilets with a toothbrush and brush their teeth afterward, were chained [...]