The New York Times is reporting someone paid that amount for Fred Thompsons book which details the “inside” story of the Watergate hearings.

I on the other hand went to the library and borrowed it for free.

According to reports Mitt Romney raised $14 million putting $6.5 million of his own money into the race (totaling $20.5 Million for Q2 in total receipts). He has about $12 million cash on hand or ten times his republican rival John McCain. Also Rudy Giuliani has reportedly raised $15 million ($2 Million for the primary)

To be honest this is a pretty poor showing for all Republicans in Quarter 2 compared to the dueling rivals of Barack Obama & Hillary Clinton who have each raised over $25 million in Q2 alone. It makes me wonder if Republican donors just aren’t turning out for the candidates on hand OR if they have switched to Democratic candidates. Either that or there is just a massive new force of donors on the Democratic side and not Republicans.

I really apologize for this. A friend of mine, Powrsurg let me know that there was a bug with my comments section. All this time you could login to write a comment here but not register. The bug is fixed now and if you want to share your thoughts you should be able to do that with no problems.

So please feel free to now comment on whatever is here.

I had wondered which of the candidates would be first to capitalize on he iPhone. The answer is, wait for it, Ron Paul! If you goto his campaign site you will see it is optimized for iPhone viewing. (Found On: Tech President)

The McCain camp let some more of its staff today (just as it did after Q1) because of poor fundraising. Frankly it is necessary, looking at Q1 numbers everyone saw that the former frontrunner was running pretty top heavy and reorganization seemed very necessary. McCain also admitted himself that he was the big problem in Q1.

Q2 saw the campaign with a new emphasis and that emphasis was to raise as much money as possible. Looking over his public schedule McCain was doing three or four fundraisers a day. It doesn’t seem like it paid off at all. He only raised $11.2 million this quarter and only had $2 million cash on hand. That is HORRIBLE, just HORRIBLE. Really I cannot even get into just how horrible that is. (Judging by the endless barrage of McCain banner ads on this site though one can figure out the campaign is ripping through money with no real rhyme or reason).

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