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[sylvester80]

I think the issue is that McCain is running out of funds to be in all places where he is being challenged. So IMO I think he is having to spend more money in states he thought would have stayed red without having to spend a dime which he is now having to defend. And that means that he has to let go of lost causes like Michigan (and possibly PA) and concentrate his dwindling funds defending red states. But that's JMHO.

[sylvester80]

Adviser: McCain left Michigan due to funds

http://www.upi.com/Top_News/2008/10/04/Adviser_McCain_left_Michigan_due_to_funds/UPI-23451223124445/

DETROIT, Oct. 4 (UPI) -- Republican U.S. presidential nominee John McCain suspended campaigning in Michigan due to public funding limits, one of his advisers says.

U.S. Rep. Fred Upton, R-Mich., said the Arizona senator was forced to stop all Michigan campaigning for next month's general election after Democratic U.S. presidential nominee Barack Obama announced he was forgoing all public funding, The Hill reported Saturday.

The Illinois senator's announcement forced McCain to adhere to specified spending limits, meaning he had to cap his Michigan campaigning at the nearly $8 million he already spent in the state.

"Part of it is they agreed to accept federal matching funds, which capped the money," Upton, who has served as an adviser to McCain, said.

The decision to forgo any additional campaigning in the Midwestern state has not set well with Republican leaders in Michigan, The Detroit Free Press said.

"I don't know what McCain was thinking," Oakland County Executive L. Brooks Patterson, a leading state Republican, said of the move. "He's a general who left the battlefield in the middle of the fight."

Michigan party leader told the Press that McCain's move could endanger U.S. House seats currently held by Reps. Joe Knollenberg and Tim Walberg.

[DEMO P2]

sorry that was my point -

[DEMO P2]

once he accepted those fund he can no longer raise funds - the rnc can but he is done -

[DEMO P2]

once again as my facts are straight - once he accepts public funds he can no longer raise funds on his own - the RNC can on his behalf but he can no longer raise funds - my facts are straight

From NBC/NJ's Adam Aigner-Treworgy and NBC's Mark Murray
Aboard the Straight Talk Express from the airport to the hotel in Minneapolis, McCain said that his campaign has decided that it will accept public financing for the general election. “We will take public financing,” Asked what his thinking was, he said, “Because we decided to take public financing.”

That will enable McCain to spend $84 million after the GOP convention.

Obama, who today rejected the public financing system, could possibly raise more than three times that amount for the general election

this is from june



http://firstread.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2008/06/19/1156366.aspx

[DEMO P2]

The McCain campaign has long struggled to raise money, and was out-raised by several of his Republican rivals in the primary and vastly out-raised by Mr. Obama. But in recent months the campaign’s decision to raise money in tandem with the Republican National Committee, which is far richer than its Democratic counterpart, has yielded results.

The McCain campaign hoped that by accepting public financing – which will yield it more $84.1 million – and relying on the deep-pockets of the Republican National Committee, it will be able to stay competitive with Mr. Obama.


again my facts are correct - once mccain takes the public funds he can no longer raise money on his own

http://thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/06/19/mccain-says-yes-to-public-financing/

he has to depend on the RNC - obama did not take public funds and can raise any amount he wants

[DEMO P2]

and yet more facts that are correct sir

McCain’s decision to bow out of the campaign money race upends the conventional thinking at the start of the 2008 season. At that time, most political players – including McCain – expected any serious candidate to forgo participating in the taxpayer financed system because of the spending limits imposed by it.

It also could also have a negative rippling effect inside the Republican Party.

In the past two cycles, the national headquarters increasingly has been forced to come to the rescue of House and Senate candidates who were badly outspent by the Democrats.

Today, the congressional Democrats’ financial advantages have grown substantially while their Republican counterparts’ situation is increasingly dire.

SPENDING LIMITS ARE IMPOSED WHEN YOU TAKE THE TXA PAYERS MONEY>

WHY IS MCCAIN TAKING 84 million from tax payers anyway???

HE OPBVIOUSLY CANNOT RAISE MONEY ON HIS OWN.

NOW YOU GET YOUR FACTS STRAIGHT


MCCAIN IS SCREWED ON THE MONEY TRAIN