And a big part of the problem is the ongoing Clinton-Obama fight. Many a person has said it matters not. I think they’re wrong.

McCain supporters are laughing their asses off.

DNC coffers dry amid flood of Dem cash

In an election year marked by jaw-dropping Democratic fundraising, one key political player isn-t so flush: The Democratic National Committee.

Despite record hauls by Barack Obama and Hillary Rodham Clinton, the DNC has raised less than half the amount taken in by the Republican National Committee. [...]

The story was equally grim in 2007, when the RNC raised a total of $83 million to the DNC’s $50 million. “The general election has started; we should be raising $15 million a month,” said one senior DNC official who spoke on the condition of anonymity. The committee is raising less than $6 million each month.

“It’s a little nuts that we are spending so much money fighting each other instead of Republicans,” the official continued. “We should be doing things that start defining McCain our way instead of his way. And if we had more money we could do more.”

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