They may be tied in the polls (if Decima is to be believed, which I don't, anyways...) but they are not tied in the pocket book.
...Stephen Harper’s Conservatives raised almost 10 times more money from 10 times more donors than the Liberals in the first three months of 2007.
Even the NDP — historically the poorest of the three main national parties — managed to raise twice as much money as the once-mighty Grits.
According to quarterly fundraising results, posted Tuesday by Elections Canada, the Liberals managed to raise only $531,141 from 4,365 donors.
By contrast, the Tories vacuumed up almost $5.2 million from more than 45,000 contributors. The NDP scooped up $1.2 million from almost 15,000 donors.
The problem for the Conservatives is that the amount they can spend during an election campaign is capped and with the public subsidy of parties the longer we have between elections the longer the Liberals will be able to spend the maximum all on the taxpayers dime.
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Stephen - isn’t it more in the interest of the Libs to have an election call and thus cap the ability of the Tories to spend? At present the Tories can keep firing out ads from their warchest while the Liberals rely on “free” ads by the likes of Jason Cherniak. Keeping Dion flying around in “undeclared campaign mode” can’t be cheap.
Posted by Mark Dowling | May 2, 2007 11:34 AM
Posted on May 2, 2007 11:34
“They may be tied in the polls (if Decima is to be believed, which I don’t, anyways…)”
I find it hard to believe a poll that puts the greens anywhere over 7-9%, this one has them at 12%? Think I’ll wait for a couple more polls before I take this one at face value.
Posted by Platty | May 2, 2007 11:53 AM
Posted on May 2, 2007 11:53
Where did they find the participants of this poll ? A crack house , or maybe Volpe’s memberships list. Someones into something they shouldn’t be thats a given.
Posted by Timothy Coderre | May 2, 2007 1:03 PM
Posted on May 2, 2007 13:03
If you take out the $57,699.97 that was transferred by EDAs and a campaign, the Liberals actually only raised $473441.03 from individuals. At that amount, the NDP raised 2.6 times what the Liberals did.
I guess that explains why the Liberal Party can’t afford to hire Jason. :)
Posted by BBS | May 2, 2007 1:50 PM
Posted on May 2, 2007 13:50
Do the NDP numbers include money raised by the provincial parties?
Posted by Brendan Kane | May 2, 2007 2:08 PM
Posted on May 2, 2007 14:08
I agree with Mark. If the CPC has the money, and they already have more money than the spending limit for the next campaign, then lets start spending now to keep the Libs on the ‘advertising defensive’. They will either let our messages go unopposed, or bankrupt themselves trying to respond. Either way, we win.
While I think it’s great the CPC raises all of this money, they do have to be careful. I always donate the maximum allowed each year, but if it starts to look like they don’t need it because they’re not using it to fight, then we may stop donating at some point?
Posted by Dave | May 2, 2007 2:19 PM
Posted on May 2, 2007 14:19
Conservatives are winning the advance auction.
Posted by Anonymous | May 2, 2007 11:01 PM
Posted on May 2, 2007 23:01
Do the NDP numbers include money raised by the provincial parties?
Nope.
Posted by Josh Gould | May 2, 2007 11:52 PM
Posted on May 2, 2007 23:52