Hard to believe McCain is not in trouble regardless of what the polls say. If his internal polling, campaign staff and corporate/amnesty cronies don’t think he is in danger of going down for the count then why has he spent over $10 million during the past three months? And this is for someone with 100% name recognition who has served in his state for more than two decades. Evidently reinventing yourself and your record, which in politics means telling a lie and getting the media to repeat it enough times to make it true, is expensive beyond belief. Contrast this with Hayworth only spending $1 million or 1/10th of McCain. Wow, let’s follow the money trail and find out just who needs McCain elected so bad they would give him that much money!

Hayworth nailed McCain to the wall about TARP in the 2nd Debate and certainly did not turn him lose once he grabbed him about the cost of amnesty and McCain’s support for it. Hopefully someone in Arizona was watching and decided to vote for Hayworth instead of McCain as a result.

Well, one good thing about all the money McCain is spending is that it cannot be spent twice to support open borders and amnesty!



http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/co ... 05035.html

McCain spending tops $10 million in second quarter

By JONATHAN J. COOPER
The Associated Press
Friday, July 23, 2010; 11:58 PM

PHOENIX -- Arizona Sen. John McCain has been beating up on his main Republican primary challenger, but it's come at a price.

McCain spent more than $10.2 million on his re-election bid in the quarter ended June 30, according to Federal Election Commission records made public Friday.

McCain also transferred $4.65 million left from his 2008 presidential run as he battles former U.S. Rep. J.D. Hayworth. McCain had $1.8 million on hand at the end of June.

Hayworth raised nearly $1.4 million during the period and spent $1.1 million. He had $922,000 on hand at the end of last month.

Hayworth entered the race as a serious threat to McCain, but recent polls show the incumbent with a comfortable lead.

The pace of Hayworth's fundraising slowed in the second quarter. His haul for the past three months was just $300,000 more than the roughly $1.1 million he raised during the first six weeks he was in the race.

McCain has hammered Hayworth for his brief stint as a registered lobbyist and for starring in an infomercial pitching free government money. Much of McCain's spending during the most recent quarter went to television ads highlighting Hayworth's work, including ads that called him a "huckster."

Hayworth launched a television ad on Friday attacking McCain for his past work on an immigration overhaul that would have created a path to citizenship for illegal immigrants.

The Hayworth camp says McCain's decision to dip into the presidential-campaign well shows he's worried about the challenge from Hayworth.
"It may be legal, but it's certainly wrong for Sen. McCain to accept millions of dollars for one campaign and then spend it on another campaign," Hayworth spokesman Mark Sanders said.

Hayworth has raised more than $2.4 million since entering the race in February. McCain has raised $17.8 million since the beginning of 2009, including the money he's transferred from his presidential campaign accounts.

McCain campaign spokesman Brian Rogers said transferring money is common, and the campaign's heavy spending is clearly working.
"It's not a surprise that television ads cost money," he said.

Former Tucson City Councilman Rodney Glassman led the Democrats, raising nearly $1.1 million, almost half of it his own money. He had just $760,000 on hand.

Former state lawmaker Cathy Eden raised $123,000, including $50,000 of her own money. Activist Randy Parraz raised $54,000 while former investigative journalist John Dougherty raised $47,000, including $19,000 of his own money.