August Party Committee Fundraising Roundup

Dolla dolla bill, y’all. Here are the August fundraising numbers for the six major party committees (July numbers are here):



















































Committee August
Receipts		 August
Disbursements		 Cash-on-Hand Debt
DCCC $3,304,284 $2,767,068 $10,738,064 $4,666,667
NRCC $3,149,809 $2,960,269 $4,200,544 $0
DSCC $2,200,000 $2,500,000 $6,900,000 $2,900,000
NRSC $3,100,000 $2,400,000 $5,100,000 $0
DNC $6,890,860 $7,870,800 $15,344,560 $0
RNC $7,868,793 $8,745,713 $20,970,858 $0

For the second month the NRSC has outraised the DSCC, putting them just a million bucks behind for the year. By way of comparison, we were $3 mil ahead in 2005 and a whopping $16 mil ahead in 2007. But perhaps most disappointing to me is the DNC’s continual lag behind the RNC. This long-standing state of affairs was supposed to change with a Democratic president in the White House, but the GOP’s national committee has outraised ours, $60 mil to $53 mil year-to-date. Again by way of comparison, at this point in 2005, when a Republican lived at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, the GOP was destroying us $76 mil to $38 mil.

22 thoughts on “August Party Committee Fundraising Roundup”

  1. Not sure if he is a craptacular DNC Chair or that he’s just a sitting governor asd thus ins’t making a lot of noise.  I’d bet a lot of people don’t even know who he is but everyone knows who Howard Dean adn Michael Steele are.  Is there anyway we can get Dr. Dean back?

  2. Looking at Cash on Hand minus debt:

    DCCC  10,738,064-4,666,667=6,071,397

    NRCC 4,200,544

    DCCC has an edge of 1,870,853

    DSCC  6,900,000-2,900,000=4,000,000

    NRCC  5,100,000

    NRCC has an edge of 1,100,000

    DNCC  15,344,560

    RNCC  20,970,858

    RNCC has an edge of 5,626,298

    So, overall, the Democrats are behind on the balance sheet, but not by much at all.  If you add it all together, the Republican committees have (cash on hand minus debt) $30, 271,402, while the Democrats have 25,415,957, which gives the Republican committees a total edge of 4,855,445.

    In August alone, the Dems raised $12,395,144 from the 3 committees.  So realistically, our balance sheet is only a little behind the GOP at this time.

    My major concerns are that we need more money than the GOP because we have more seats that are vulnerable than they do.  We must start raising some serious cash if we want to defend these seats against a GOP wave.

    Overall, the Democratic party is in a lot better position than we were 4 years ago.  We need to strengthen our balance sheet so we can “lay it on” the GOP in 2010.

  4. Those would seem to be the relevant numbers to compare to Obama to see what we should expect of the DNC under a Democratic president.  

  5. Until a health care bill is passed with a public option

    I know progressives are large contributors to both, might this be why the DSCC and DCCC numbers are behind the NRSC and the NRCC numbers?

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