Reply #56: If DK could get that kind of swag, he'd eschew his public financing.

[MADem]

In a heartbeat.

He's desperate to get his numbers up, because if he doesn't, guess what? He won't be able to go to the public trough for public financing cash again in four years...and he barely squesked through from last time.

He knows unless he pulls some major attention-seeking stunts that he's not gonna be able to keep those numbers up. Even with stunts, it's iffy. His two issues aren't just his, and he hasn't expounded beyond them to a national audience (because he's too cheap and lazy to do any fundraising).

That's the way politics works.