Barack Obama and the Democrats found their April fundraising take was down from the previous month — but they’re expecting May to be better. Many Democrats who still seem confident (alarmingly so according to James Carville) that they’ll win in the end underestimate the financial battle they’re in with the GOP. For instance, when Team Obama’s PAC made a big TV buy it was countered -and matched — by Karl Rove’s Super PAC.
Joe Gandelman is a former fulltime journalist who freelanced in India, Spain, Bangladesh and Cypress writing for publications such as the Christian Science Monitor and Newsweek. He also did radio reports from Madrid for NPR’s All Things Considered. He has worked on two U.S. newspapers and quit the news biz in 1990 to go into entertainment. He also has written for The Week and several online publications, did a column for Cagle Cartoons Syndicate and has appeared on CNN.