O'Donnell Hauls In $1 Million, Coons Takes In $125,000

The best spin coming from the Republican Party in the wake of Christine O'Donnell's primary victory in Delaware this past Tuesday has been that a GOP already fueled with conservative enthusiasm is now even more energized.

Appearing on MSNBC Thursday afternoon, RNC Communications Director Doug Heye relayed that the committee had received a $10,000 donation on Wednesday "because they were excited about Christine O'Donnell's win."

Reports emerged shortly thereafter that O'Donnell herself raised more than $1 million online on Wednesday, a staggering total that could go a long way in a state like Delaware.

How wary this makes Democrats is an open question and not just because the going bet is that no amount of money can make O'Donnell palatable to general election voters.

The fundraising benefits, to a certain extent, cut both ways. Daniel McElhatton, a spokesman for Democratic Senatorial candidate Chris Coons, told the Huffington Post on Thursday that in the 24 hours since O'Donnell's win, more than 1,000 online donations had been made to their campaign bringing in more than $125,000. This falls well short of O'Donnell's haul. But Coons's people didn't make a broad fundraising push. And the County Executive's campaign has yet to be granted the same type of national spotlight as his competitor.

"A lot of these folks are coming back around and new people are entering now," said McElhatton. "Certainly the dynamics have changed but in terms of our campaign the messaging point that really hasn't changed all that much. This race was always about Chris talking to Delawareans and particularly Democrats... now we can talk to Dems and moderate Republicans."

The Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee, likewise, has sent out several fundraising appeals since the Delaware primary took place, playing up not just O'Donnell's eccentricities but those of the entire Tea Party movement.

"As Republicans nominate more and more extremists, our supporters become more and more energized to protect the Democratic majority," said DSCC spokesman Eric Schultz.

Worth keeping in mind is that Coons started the general election portion of the campaign with a massive cash on hand advantage. According to the latest Federal Election Commission filings: O'Donnell had, before Wednesday, $20,374 in the bank. Coons had $944,230. Adjusted for the immediate post-primary fundraising, the totals are now, roughly, even.

Comments

[moose and squirrel]

07:13 PM on 10/14/2010

she's got enough money, the problem is no amount of cash can convince people she is the best candidate for the job. since O'donnell pays herself a salary from the donations, it looks like she is raising money for an end-of-campaign bonus.

[gevan]

03:56 PM on 09/20/2010

More on background of the million dollar babe. http://www.dailyrecord.com/article/20100916/UPDATES01/100916020/Tea-Party-s-newest-darling-turned-her-life-around-in-Morris-County-NJ

[blueknight41]

01:41 PM on 09/19/2010

oh those rats with human brains are writing checks now..... wow

[moose and squirrel]

07:17 PM on 10/14/2010

or those humans with rat brains, take your pick....

[Danny Ross]

09:54 AM on 09/19/2010

Christine O'Donnel's latest fund raising total - as of 08:38 19 September, 2010 - is $1,838,300. This is on the order of $3 for every voter in Delaware. And this is only 4 days of fund raising. It's going to be an interesting 6 weeks until the general election.

[mseguin]

10:36 AM on 09/19/2010

Money cannot obfuscate insanity. The only question at hand is whether the inmates are running the asylum.

[rshrink]

12:12 AM on 09/20/2010

In fact, it is rather insane to donate so much money to an insane person. But, you know repubs, when you don't have any ideas or accomplishments, just throw money at a candidate, do a lot of PR ads and smear the opponent. That's all they have now, you know.

[SarahhJ]

06:13 PM on 09/28/2010

Perhaps she should devote more time enhancing her image as a loving mother than a killer. Even if my priorities are screwed up, and being a killer of animals is viewed as more important to the image of B.S. than being a loving mother and wife, it does seem that complying with the laws of Alaska should be important to B.S. Either she is not the killer she professes to be, or she has violated the law in Alaska. In either event she is not the loving mother she professes to be. Sarah James, Interior Decorating Expert, http://www.decordesigns.net

[BlackandBlueCA]

06:49 AM on 09/19/2010

Looks like the Ta!ib@nization of the GOP is complete!!

All you small government types, get ready for the GOP to put the government in your bedrooms to make sure you're not engaged in that awful m@sturb@tion activity!!

Please get out and VOTE people, we can't afford to let these kooks anywhere near Congress.

[Danny Ross]

10:04 AM on 09/19/2010

Get a grip! Christine is a Catholic, and Catholic doctrine holds that masturbation is a sin. Let me tell you, if Catholic doctrine is correct, Heaven is going to be vastly unpopulated, but I doubt even the US Congress is going to pass a law against it.

[rshrink]

12:16 AM on 09/20/2010

Get a grip! Is that a pun? So, are you saying that Catholics don't masturbate? And while we have 43 million people now in poverty and 10 percent unemployment, is Christine going to worry herself to deth about masturbation? Is this the new repub concern? Or is it yet just another distraction away from their real agenda, to keep the most wealthy even more wealthy.

[BlackandBlueCA]

01:21 AM on 09/20/2010

Personally, I don't give a rip what Catholic doctrine holds, she's running for public office & I don't want her Catholic doctrine making public policy, so YOU get a grip!

[TylerDurdenSays]

06:11 AM on 09/19/2010

No amount of money can fix st00pid!

[Danny Ross]

10:24 AM on 09/19/2010

Oh, I don't know. Obama got elected president in 2008 by outspending Senator McCain $730 million to $333 million. That blanket of money completely hid his total unpreparedness to be president, not to mention the extent to which he is committed to a hard left agenda.

[AlphaDragon]

10:18 PM on 09/19/2010

Hard Left Agenda? LOLOLOL!

You wouldn't know a hard left agenda if it came up and batted you over the head if you call Obama's agenda hard left.

[DoinMyHomework]

12:48 AM on 09/19/2010

So Christine was into a satanic cult for a while.

And Sarah was into the separatist cult for a while.

Then they both found the Creationist cult, and bingo! A ticket to the GOP and Fake News and REAL MONEY!!

[mcmutter]

06:05 AM on 09/19/2010

BINGO fanned # 215

the anti-gravity party wins another .....

[moose and squirrel]

07:21 PM on 10/14/2010

excellent analysis!

[WeirdScience]

09:12 PM on 09/18/2010

Good. She'll have rent money for a while.

[rgateman]

06:39 PM on 09/18/2010

Wow... $1,000,000.... totally tax free? Well I better cancel my weekend stuff for priority things like ;
1. new boobs and some plastic here and there.
2. Liposuction (everywhere)
3. recouperation time from 1 &2.
4. Buy all new Fall/Winter wardrobe
5. pay some past due bills maybe from all these new court claims
6. campaign stuff?

[JLSR]

05:16 PM on 09/18/2010

When will Christian Conservatives, once they attain positions in the government, outlaw sex for senior women? Let me elucidate......The reason the Bible says it is sinful to masturbate is because you are wasting sperm that could have been used to create a child. According to the Bible, a married couple should only have sex when they wish to conceive a child. (I don't think too many "good" Christians are following THAT rule, but I digress....). Women past menopause cannot conceive a child, therefore, according to scripture, a man should not be wasting his seed on her. When will this new Theocracy enact laws banning sex for women over 55? Make it illegal to masturbate (just like they, previously, enacted laws to make sodomy illegal--how they enforce THAT one, I will never know, unless someone tattles)? I don't know about you--but, these people talk about Democrats and President Obama wanting to take away peoples' rights and that Obama is trampling on the Constitution, but that is only in their backwards-thinking Bizarro World. Our founding fathers put it right in the Constitution that religion needed to be strictly seperated from our political law-making. So--WHO are the ones who want to trample on the Constitution? Who wants to bring their religious tenets into their political office with them and enact laws based on those "beliefs?" Who talks about taking amendment 14 out of the Constitution--not Democrats.

[Jon Dorian]

10:59 PM on 09/18/2010

Actually, the Bible does not say what you say. God created sex to be pleasurable for man and woman in marriage. It is something that a married man and wife should practice often in the process of becoming one with each other. It was also created peasurable so that man and wife would procreate. Children are a blessing to married man and wife.

The Bible does condemn sex outside of marriage as well as self-gratification.

[JLSR]

11:53 PM on 09/18/2010

“My Grandmother told me that there was a passage in the bible that says, "It is better to spill your seed in the belly of a whore, than to spill it on the ground." So, I tried both. And the bible's right! It's way better. That's one of the reasons they call it the good book.”

You might want to check the Old Testament. "Be fruitful and multiply" has less to do with pleasure and everything to do with reproduction. I could find nothing in the Old Testament equating pleasure and sex, unless you were in Sodom or Gomorrah.

[aceshigh]

12:06 AM on 09/19/2010

I couldn't care one whit about what the "Bible" says about marriage.

How does that pertain to the governance of this country?

[rshrink]

04:27 PM on 09/18/2010

Where are all the left wing religious nuts? Are they hiding from the press or .... is the press hiding from them?

[rgateman]

06:26 PM on 09/18/2010

can you maybe name a few as a hint?

[rshrink]

09:48 PM on 09/18/2010

See what I mean?

[rshrink]

04:25 PM on 09/18/2010

O'Donnell's to do list if elected:

1. Stop Masturbation
2. Outlaw sex unless married to the opposite gender and only for procreation
3. Outlaw condoms
4. Prayer in school
5. Outlaw evolution
6. Make all school evangelical Christian schools
7. Make evangelical bible interpretation law of the land
8. Only Christian broadcasting and websites.....
899. Create jobs

2077. Address the energy situation if we run out of oil and coal.

[termgirl]

02:21 PM on 09/18/2010

Time for me to send a check.
(To Coons.)

[Jon Dorian]

11:00 PM on 09/18/2010

Why do you want to waste your money?

[termgirl]

12:42 AM on 09/19/2010

Supporting people I believe in isn't a waste.
Regardless of the outcome, I will know I have done what I could.

[TylerDurdenSays]

06:15 AM on 09/19/2010

Please, go ahead and waste yours on the b@sh!t crazy lady instead.

[JLSR]

11:55 PM on 09/18/2010

I support every candidate running against nut cases.

[Danny Ross]

10:41 AM on 09/19/2010

Did you vote against Joe Biden? Remember this quote:
"When the stock market crashed, Franklin D. Roosevelt got on the television and didn't just talk about the, you know, the princes of greed. He said, 'Look, here's what happened." –Joe Biden, apparently unaware that FDR wasn't president when the stock market crashed in 1929 and that only experimental TV sets were in use at that time, interview with Katie Couric, Sept. 22, 2008.

"This is a big fucking deal!" --Joe Biden, caught on an open mic congratulating President Barack Obama during the health care signing ceremony, Washington, D.C., March 23, 2010

"His mom lived in Long Island for ten years or so. God rest her soul. And- although, she's- wait- your mom's still- your mom's still alive. Your dad passed. God bless her soul." --Joe Biden, on the mother of Irish Prime Minister Brian Cowen, who is very much alive, Washington, D.C., March 17, 2010

"A man I'm proud to call my friend. A man who will be the next President of the United States — Barack America!" --Joe Biden, at his first campaign rally with Barack Obama after being announced as his running mate, Springfield, Ill., Aug. 23, 2008

[aview999]

12:43 PM on 09/18/2010

122 Promises Kept by President Obama
http://politifact.com/truth-o-meter/promises/rulings/promise-kept/

[eternalscorpio1]

04:35 PM on 09/18/2010

he has done a lot of good since taking office, he should be getting more credit for those things and in time he will..........

[JLSR]

11:56 PM on 09/18/2010

Thanks, I love it. Will share this on my FB page. Fanned and faved!

[mickthebiologist]

12:30 PM on 09/18/2010

sara o'donnell majored in witchcraft at the u of idaho.