This is interesting because it shows that getbig experts, who claim McCain already has this election won, know more than the republican senators who are concerned about obama.
Once optimistic about John McCain’s prospects for the fall general election, Republicans are increasingly concerned that he could wind up badly outgunned, saddled with serious deficiencies of money, organization and partisan intensity against the likely Democratic nominee, Barack Obama.
After making a promising debut as their nominee, McCain has worried many Republicans by seeming to flounder during the past few weeks.
The campaign has been rattled recently by fallout from McCain’s determination to purge his campaign of lobbying conflicts. The departure of five staff members has provided ammunition to Democrats and produced a snarl of damaging news coverage questioning McCain’s reformist image.
It’s a troubling development, because when Obama likely finally captures the nomination and begins to consolidate his party, there’s yet another matter for Republicans to lose sleep over — the polling bump the Democrat is expected to receive.
GOP operatives and officials around the country acknowledge Obama’s commanding financial and organizational advantage as the general election begins to take shape, noting that he benefits from both the toxic climate for the GOP and a lengthy primary that has enabled him to build an organization in every state in America.
“He spent over $5 million on TV,” said Mark Jefferson, Wisconsin's Republican Party executive director, referring to Obama’s advertising buy in the hotly contested Badger State primary in February. “McCain spent $180,000. And [Obama’s] got far more ground troops.”
Sen. Richard Burr (R-N.C.), an early McCain backer in the primary, called the Obama juggernaut “a formidable thing to deal with.”
