Republicans Outnumbered, But Not in Cash OKLAHOMA CITY, OK (kccu-fm) - When President Bush flew into Oklahoma City to collect cash for John McCain and the Republican Party, he was plowing fertile ground.

Across the country, Democrats are outpacing Republicans in raising money for federal candidates and their national standard bearer, Barack Obama.

But as of September 8th, in Oklahoma, 63 percent of the cash raised for federal candidates during 2007 and 2008 went to Republicans.

A compilation by the Center for Responsive Government, a Washington, D.C-based research group, reveals that only 37 percent was collected by Democrats.

In all, Oklahomans gave 12.2 million dollars to GOP federal candidates, including McCain and his competitors in the presidential primary. That compares to 7.7 million dollars for Obama and other Democratic presidential and House and Senate hopefuls.

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