US election: Barack Obama begs donors for more as Mitt Romney rakes it in

July 2nd, 2012

FAKE NEWS for the Zionist agenda

Romney aides have boasted that their haul for June may exceed $100 million
(£64 million), after being boosted by Right-wing anger over the Supreme
Court’s approval of Mr Obama’s health care reforms.

While he remains ahead overall in the money race for the time being, loose
talk of Mr Obama being the first candidate to raise $1 billion (£640
million) has been silenced by the Romney machine.

“In 2008 everything was new and exciting about our campaign,” Mr
Obama said, according to a recording of the call obtained by The Daily
Beast, a news website. “And now I’m the incumbent president. I’ve got
grey hair. People have seen disappointment because folks had a vision of
change happening immediately. And it turns out change is hard”.

Joe Trippi, a leading Democratic strategist, said Mr Obama’s network of donors
had been slow to realise that they could lose, thanks to the circus-like
quality of the Republican party primary contest.

“People have to perceive that they are threatened before they give,”
Mr Trippi told The Daily Telegraph. “Until recently, most Democrats
thought there was no way Romney could beat the President, so he didn’t need
their money. That is changing quickly.” Several “Super PACs”
– external campaign groups that can raise unlimited corporate cash for the
first time in this election – are bolstering the Romney effort while failing
to similarly assist Mr Obama.

Restore Our Future, the main group backing the Republican, has raised about
$61.5 million (£39 million) – more than three times that raised by
Priorities USA Action, which backs Mr Obama.

Sheldon Adelson, a casino tycoon who last month gave Restore Our Future $10
million (£6.4 million), has pledged to spend “whatever it takes”
to kill Mr Obama’s “socialist agenda”, friends have said.

The president told donors on the conference call: “We’re going to have to
deal with these Super PACs in a serious way,” adding unless he secured
re-election, the “special interests” supporting Mr Romney would be
running “Congress and the White House” from November.

Mr Obama received another warning yesterday as Rupert Murdoch, the chairman of
News Corporation, indicated that he would throw his influence behind Mr
Romney.

After a posting series of messages to his Twitter account criticising Mr
Romney’s campaign, Mr Murdoch said: “Of course I want him to win, save
us from socialism, etc”.

Mr Obama leads Mr Romney by 3.4 percentage points in national polls, according
to an aggregate by RealClearPolitics. He also holds narrow leads in several
potentially crucial swing states.