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In case you missed it, the second quarter fundraising numbers are in, and Giuliani is ahead of Romney with $17 million versus $14 million, although Giuliani also received $2 million dollars in general election donations. If someone gives a general election donation, that means that if the candidate doesn’t win the Republican nomination, they has to give all of that money back - it cannot be spent during the primaries. As always, Romney did not collect any general election funding because he feels that it is important to raise money he can use now, instead of focusing on the generals. If he gets nominated, he’ll worry about raising the money then (and I don’t think anyone believes he’ll have any problem raising money in the general election). So when you actually compare apples to apples, you see that Giuliani received $15 million dollars vs Romney’s $14 million dollars - not great numbers for Giuliani considering he is supposed to be the GOP front runner and if you consider the fact that he conducted quite a few more fundraisers in the second quarter than Romney did.

Anyway, the fun part to all of this is a map of the United States located here that shows all of the candidates and how much they received from each part of the country. I am linking to Romney’s numbers, although you can click on the left hand side and change to any other candidate you want or even the race as a whole. I linked to a similar map in the first quarter, and I’ll admit I have a little too much fun with it. It’s rather addicting to look at and compare between the candidates, to watch those circles get bigger or smaller.

I was then reading an article about those fundraising numbers at the Washington Post, and was skimming right along, not a whole lot bothering me, when I saw this, “(Romney’s) filings also reinforced a trend from the first three months of the year: Strong backing from fellow Mormons. Of the top 25 Zip codes where he raised the most money, four were in Utah including a haul of more than $200,000 around Salt Lake City.”

*Screech*

Let’s review those numbers again, shall we? Out of the top 25 zip codes for donor campaigns, 4 were in Utah. If you do the math, that means that 16% of the top 25 zip codes for Romney fundraising were from Utah. And out of the $14 million that Romney raised, $200,000 came from Salt Lake City, a measly 1.4% of what he raised total. Wow, yup I would say that shows an astounding number of donations are coming from Utah. Heck, I would even say that those numbers are overwhelming.

*roll eyes*

Does anyone else get the feeling that the mainstream media has decided that they are going to report whatever they want to report, no matter what the truth is? This is getting rather old, at least to me. And notice, they didn’t break down Giuliani’s numbers and report how much of his cash came from New York City, where he was mayor for all that time. He raised the most in New York out of any state ($3.7 million dollars) and yet you don’t see any news reports about how all of Giuliani’s support is coming from people who lived through 9-11 and are thankful to Giuliani for his leadership during that time. Of course, that probably has to do with the fact that not everyone thought he did such a great job, and in fact some New Yorkers hate his guts…

Speaking of Giuliani, here’s a quote from his campaign manager, “In terms of organizing, we’re beyond the states of Iowa, New Hampshire, South Carolina into big states like Florida, California and many others right now.”

Shucks, I’m sure the voters of Iowa, New Hampshire, and South Carolina are going to be thrilled to pieces to hear that Giuliani is “beyond” them. Perhaps I’m just reading too much into the wording here, but that makes it sound as if Giuliani thinks that he is better than those states and that he doesn’t care about those states, because he’s “beyond” them. That’s a (not very) nice way of telling everyone in Iowa, New Hampshire, and South Carolina to go pound sand.

Of course, he already told Iowans to go pound sand when he dropped out of the Ames Straw Poll - why should him telling that to the people in New Hampshire and South Carolina be any different?

Golly, can’t wait to get him into office.

Havs

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