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CINCINNATI, OH -- Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney's campaign announced on Thursday that its Victory fund had hauled in a record $111.8 million dollars in the first two weeks of October.
Brian Snyder / Reuters
Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney, accompanied by Sen. Rob Portman (R-OH) (C), picks up food at First Watch cafe in Cincinnati, Ohio October 25.
The Republican victory effort had amassed a $169 million warchest for its final push to Election Day, the Romney campaign said. Its record fundraising was tabulated through Oct. 17, which includes the first two presidential debates.
The Romney Victory fund, a joint fundraising venture by the Romney campaign, the Republican National Committee and four state Republican parties allied with the Romney camp, raised $170 million for the GOP contender in September. October's haul is on pace to far surpass that number.
Thursday's Deep Dive featured a look at Ohio's key counties and their election histories in 2004 and 2008. Which way will they vote this year? The Daily Rundown's Chuck Todd reports.
“Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan are offering a vision for the country that will finally bring a real recovery to the American people. Their plan will bring much needed change after the last four years and it is why we have seen such momentum and strong support from our donors," Romney national finance chairman Spencer Zwick said in a statement accompanying the release.
With less than two weeks remaining in the fall campaign, today's release could be intended in part to continue to project momentum and strength for the Romney campaign, themes the candidate has sought to emphasize at each appearance on the campaign trail.
"There's no question about it. We're seeing more and more enthusiasm, more and more support," Romney said on Tuesday in Nevada. "We're going to make sure that these campaigns and the message of these debates, rather, these messages, keep going across the country."
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Much of the $169 million the Romney team had on hand as of last week is earmarked for fueling that message with both ad spending and get-out-the-vote efforts increasing in intensity.
Earlier this week, a Romney adviser said the campaign has inquired about air time for a possible 30-minute infomercial to air in swing states, and the money could also be used to broaden Romney's electoral map. Pennsylvania, with its expensive media markets, could become a target for the Romney campaign, which has flirted with the state but not yet fully engaged, including not running TV ads.
There's also no sign that the money well will dry up for Romney any time soon. Tonight in Dallas the campaign will hold a fundraiser headlined by former Vice President Dick Cheney, and Romney's son Josh and featuring a video appearance from Vice Presidential nominee Paul Ryan, that organizers say is expected to raise more than two million dollars.
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After watching this President desperately try to COVER UP the Benghazi story, with blatant LIES to the American people I say anyone who votes for Obama is as guilty of murdering those 4 Americans as Obama is. Him and his administration didn't even bother to lift a finger to help them (while watching in real time) and even before, when they begged for more protection, this President was too busy going on The View, David Letterman and any other show that would listen to his "crap" He is NOT running for "American Idol" or is NOT some "psedo-celebrity". He is supposed to be the President of the United States of America. He is a total disgrace to the office of the Presidency. And shame on anyone who votes for this LIAR, COWARD and SNEAK!
.... YOU WANT TO BLAME OBAMA FOR WHAT HAPPENED IN THE MIDDLE EAST with bombings going on daily? Not to disrespect of discount the American loss of those four men killed ... May God bless them and their families ....
THIS IS WHAT BUSH DID or DIDN'T DO ON AMERICAN SOIL ....
What Bush Knew Before Sept.11
"We were trying to figure out what they (al Qaeda) would do. We never had specifics about time, place, MO (method of operation)."
U.S. intelligence official, commenting anonymously.
President Bush was told in the months before the Sept. 11 attacks that Osama bin Laden's terrorist network might hijack U.S. passenger planes - information which prompted the administration to issue an alert to federal agencies - but not the American public.
CBS News National Security Correspondent David Martin says the warning was in a document called the President's Daily Brief, which is considered to be the single most important document that the U.S. intelligence community turns out. The document did not, however, mention the possibility of planes being flown
into buildings.
An agent in the FBI's Arizona office did, however, speculate about that, writing in his case notes about Zacarias Moussaoui that Moussaoui seemed like the type of person who was capable of flying an aircraft into the World Trade Center.
It was the observation of an agent taking notes as he thought about his case - an observation whose significance simply did not register at the time.
White House spokesman Ari Fleischer says that while President Bush was told last summer that bin Laden's al Qaeda network might hijack planes, he did not receive information suggesting that airplanes might be used as suicide bombs, as they were on Sept. 11.
Fleischer emphasizes that "until the attack took place, I think it's fair to say that no one envisioned that as a possibility."
The revelation about the president's security briefing comes as House and Senate Intelligence Committee investigators prepare for public hearings beginning next month on whether an intelligence community which spends $30 billion a year should have been able to provide a more specific warning in advance of Sept. 11.
The New York Times reports that an FBI agent in Arizona warned his superiors last summer that bin Laden might be sending students to U.S. flight schools.
Investigators have since Sept. 11 suspected bin Laden's al Qaeda network of masterminding the terror attacks on America, which killed more than 3,000 people.
Republicans don't want to see the bigger picture .... the middle east has been at war since forever ... the attacks on the embassy happened in the middle east .... Bush was for-warned too ... and did nothing and they attacked us AMERICAN SOIL .... HUGE DIFFERENCE .....
MIDDLE EAST - 4 KILLED
AMERICAN SOIL - 3000 KILLED .... YES REPUBLICANS EXPLAIN THAT ONE .....
MAY GOD BLESS AMERICA .... AND AMERICA VOTE FOR OBAMA
They know the truth, that's why none of them would have appreciated GWB at the RNC, but in a way they are still in denial.
Opening their wallets for Romney? Are you playing with a full deck? Opened wallets for what, a few peanuts? Romney's bucks come big time, Eisner, Koch. et cetera, you're talking about multimillion dollar donations. Oh and those guys are only giving all that for people like you? hahahahaha.,,,,,,,
Be worried CantAffordNoMore. When Romney gets in and your insurance rates, banking fees goes up and your pay check goes down, tell Romney you "CantAffordNoMore".
I wonder how much money Putin and Chavez has donated to obama? More flexibility sometimes goes hand in hand with money!
This is the Republican Party Today!!! The new Political Government for America!! VERY DARK DAYS AHEAD!!!
Romney/Ryan funded by the Kock Brothers "Propaganda Machine"
Kock Brothers "PROPAGANDA MACHINE" THE 3%
The Republican Reformist Party!!
Romney/Ryan are the founder and leader of the Republican Reformist Party!! and the most influential voice in the organization, the systematic extermination of the belief in America!! and the destruction of 50% of the American population by all means!!! Including the 47% who have no VOICE in POLITICS!!
9 years ago the Republicans in power told us outright lies about Saddam Hussein having weapons of mass destruction so they could use it as an excuse to invade Iraq and overthrow Hussein, thinking we would be welcomed as heroes and given free access to Iraq's oil reserves, the second largest in the world.
The result? No oil. A trillion dollars in war debt and counting. And 4,000 young soldiers lying dead in the ground with another 20,000 plus with no arms, legs, or eyesight.
They also removed all the restraints put on the banking industry back in the days of the Great Depression, allowing uncontrolled speculation and market gambling that enriched the heads of the financial industry but almost bankrupted the country to the sad economic state it is in today, and for which they try to put the blame on Obama.
Now they're telling you why they should be elected and allowed to run the country again.
You going to vote for them? Are you really that stupid? Or maybe you're brain is rotted and you just can't remember who it is that screwed this country to the wall from 2000 through 2008.