February 21, 2006

NRSC Picks Up The Pace

The National Republican Senatorial Committee NRSC) raised more $4.3M in January, twice as much as the Democrats' Senate committee took in, according to committee officials.

Though the GOP's committee's bank account still lags its Dem counterpart by nearly $14 million overall, the NRSC believes its investment in harvesting small donors has begun to bear dividends.

About $2M in donations to the NRSC came from checks under $200.

Donors who don't contribute the maximum can give again -- and the NRSC hopes to reap more donations as their candidates better their positions in races. Alternatively, the committee is not above playing to the fear of Republicans losing the Senate altogether.

Still, the NRSC's $4.3M total is less than the $5.3M it raised as the cycle began in 1/05 -- although the committee said that many institutional donors contributed early. And donors may have opened their wallets in anticipation of a major fundraiser Pres. Bush hosted last week.

By this -- the midway point om the first midterm cycle after changes to the campaign finance laws, all six national party committees have spent millions to expand their contributor lists and find donors willing to write smaller checks repeatedly.

Has the DSCC made the same investments in small donors? It's hard to tell. GOPers admit that chair Chuck Schumer has turned into the party's most dogged chaser of donors who can contribute the maximum. He's been helped in part by the donor community's tension with DNC Chairman Howard Dean and by the remarkable downturn (for Republicans) in the political environment. But he's mostly just that good. The Dems are raising money nearly twice as fast as they did during the last comparable cycle.

The DSCC raised $2.1M in January.

Posted at 04:21 PM

Comments

You should at least mention that Liddy Dole's handicapped by having to justify support for the weakest Linc running against a real Republican in RI. Repubs are directing the funds that would ordinarily go to the NSRC to other venues.

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