Did the Blunt team lower expectations enough?
Submitted by .Sean on April 15, 2009 - 1:09pm
The signs were all there:
- March 21: KY3 reports that Roy Blunt has "a totally unwieldy campaign apparatus" and "fundraising isn't going as well as expected"
- April 9: Nine days after the end of the quarter, Blunt says he still hasn't "seen the numbers."
- April 11: A source very close to Blunt tells KY3 that "anything around $500,000 will be respectable."
- April 14: Blunt says, "The last thing I'm worried about is whether we raised the money."
It's not hard to see why Blunt & Co. were lowering expectations. Robin Carnahan almost doubled Blunt's fundraising for the first quarter ($1,048,023 and $542,000, respectively), and almost tripled his total from individual contributors. And at the same time, Blunt burned through almost twice the cash, in less time.
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