Chafee Has Barely Raised Any Money

[DonViejo]

Lincoln Chafee (D) raised less than $30,000 in his first quarter as a presidential candidate, Politico reports.

“Most of the Chafee campaign’s cash came from Chafee himself. He loaned $364,000, in addition to what he received from donors, giving his campaign about $329,000 in cash on hand.”

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http://politicalwire.com/2015/07/13/chafee-has-barely-raised-any-money/

[London Lover Man]

1. Is he trying to figure out how to convert his dollars to metrics?

How did O'Malley do?

[arcane1]

2. Of course they say it's Sanders "who’s viewed as a long shot" in that article

Language that's never used on those with single-digit polling

[yeoman6987]

3. Ashame that 360 thousand is considered chump change

In politics today.

[MineralMan]

8. I don't know. In a country with 300+ million people,

that sure doesn't sound like much money to me. It's a matter of scale. A House representative doesn't necessarily have to spend millions to get elected, but a President sure does. Many, many millions. To start with, no presidential candidate can even be everywhere. He or she needs a paid staff, along with transportation costs and much, much more.

For presidential candidates, a successful primary campaign costs millions, just to get through the first primaries and Super Tuesday. A strong campaign organization is just the beginning of the stuff that costs money. Talented people don't come free. They get paid.

There will never be a time when millions of dollars aren't needed in a presidential primary by every candidate who is really trying to win. Never.

[hrmjustin]

4. Not surprised.

[MoonRiver]

5. Wow, I completely forgot he was in the race!

Thanks for the reminder, I think.

[jeff47]

6. I guess people aren't feeling the Chafe. (nt)

[MineralMan]

7. I doubt very much that Chafee considers himself

a viable candidate at all. I can't really imagine why he's in the primary race in the first place, and doubt that he will last past the first caucuses and primaries.

I'd love to ask him why he threw his hat in the ring.

[PoliticAverse]

9. He appears to be below the noise level in national polling. Not sure many people

either know who he is or that he's running.

[JI7]

10. He is only running to promote the metric system

And go after Clinton on foreign policy

[Adrahil]

15. I'm with him on the metric system! nt

[Capt. Obvious]

11. Chafee is the Fred Thompson of 2016

[PoliticAverse]

12. Nah. There was a lot of hype about Thompson. Many people thought

he would be a front runner right after entering. Thompson was the Brian Bosworth
of the republican primaries that year.

[Capt. Obvious]

13. Minus the hype their campaigns are similar

Both lazy and not actual campaigns.

[Adrahil]

14. He'll be out by Christmas. nt