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Obama's 20 Million Dollar Math Mistake, or the Campaign Lies (Again) PDF E-mail
Written by Melanie Morgan   
Thursday, 17 July 2008

Is it new math? Or the same old same old from lying hack politicans? Matt Lewis at Townhall.com reports, you Decide.

This morning, the Obama campaign fired off an emotionally-tinged fundraising email to their supporters.  The urgent message stated:"The Obama campaign and the DNC ended June with a combined total of nearly $72 million in the bank. It's a healthy number. But McCain and the RNC together still have a huge cash advantage, and we need your help to close the gap.

As I mentioned in my video message to you earlier in the week, we're facing a Republican machine with unprecedented resources at its disposal. The McCain campaign and the Republican National Committee finished June with nearly $100 million in the bank."(Emphasis theirs).

... But in an under-stated blog post, Politico's Ben Smith informs us that the Obama campaign's math was off by $20 million: "In total, the Democrats have some $92 million on hand, to the combined Republican total of $95 million."(The Obama email said they only had $72 million -- now we find out they have $92 million).

Of course, the cynical observation is that Obama's campaign wanted to fire-up their supporters by acting as if they were losing the money game to the GOP.  But a less sinister -- and more charitable --analysis is that their math was off by $20 million.  Of couse, this would be a gross error for such a polished political operation to commit.

 

 
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