Out Of The Bunker

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Deathly afraid that Obama will be defeated, the state-controlled media is ramping up its reelection efforts. From whispering about Romney's religion to absurd polling the media campaign is now underway. Make no mistake, defeat of Obama is an almost equal rebuke of the Liberal press. Hence we get Chris Matthews commenting yesterday that Republicans would not give Obama credit for killing bin Laden, but want to blame him for the GSA scandal. The connection between the two is absurd as is the contention. Overwhelmingly, Republicans gave the president props for taking out bin Laden. There was certainly some grumbling that the intelligence gathered to do the job took place under Bush and that Obama had been critical of Bush policies in this regard. Nonetheless, the notion that Obama was not given credit is false. With respect to the GSA scandal, Republicans will certainly use this to their political advantage as Democrats would if the situation was reversed. Republican criticism - to our ears - has been more directed at out-of-control government spending and waste and a bloated federal bureaucracy. Republicans are certainly happy to have Democrats and the president on the defensive, but outright blame of Obama has not been the predominant theme of their comments. 


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Ben Eisenberg, finance director for the Sanders campaign, said that since 2007, Sanders has received donations from 58,846 individuals, including 2,965 Vermonters. In the first quarter of 2011, contributions came from 19,337 individuals, including 546 Vermonters, Eisenberg said. 


Since 2007, the campaign has raised a total of $5,244,240, of which $479,062 came from Vermonters — or about 9 percent. 


From 2007 to 2011, about 19 percent of the money donated to Sanders came from Vermonters, with the rest originating from outside the state, according to the OpenSecrets.org website, which tracks money in American politics. (Burlington Free Press, 4/18/2012)


So here are the numbers:


-Since 2007, 95% of contributors were non-Vermonters
-In 2011, 97% of contributors were non-Vermonters
-Since 2007, 91% of money contributed from non-Vermonters


And Colonel Sanders wants to overturn Citizens United? What is he hiding? Vermont's junior senator is bought and paid for by outside interests.