Clinton To Drudge Connection Lives

Impressive -- not the money, so much as the ability to convince Matt Drudge to spin it.

Once again, the bottom line:

## In practical terms, there's little difference between $19M and $22M. Both Clinton and Obama will have enough money to run exactly the type of campaigns they want to. In fact, in total, Obama has raised more money for the primary than Clinton has... about $2.9M. Subtract the $10M Clinton transferred in, and Obama has raised -- active-verb-raised -- $12M more than Clinton has for the primaries.

## Institutional donors are starting to fall in with the herd, and the herd is running towards Clinton at this point. All the talk of her "frontrunner" status is manna to the ears of Terry McAullife and Jonathan Mantz; no one wants to be left out.

## The political elite expected Clinton to have a good quarter; she did; in equity terms, today's numbers are already priced into the market. Except for the fact that politics is not like the stock market, and artificial indices can often drive rallies.

Comments

"Impressive -- not the money, so much as the ability to convince Matt Drudge to spin it."

There's a Drudge quote out there in the past month about how he "needs Hillary" to win the Presidency in order to continue driving his traffic.

I'd say Drudge is one of Wolfson's easiest targets.

Posted by Petey | October 2, 2007 9:24 AM

Marc: Don't sound so down in the dumps over a good fundraising quarter for Clinton. Readers might start to mistake your supurb blog for DailyKOS.

Posted by hwc | October 2, 2007 12:20 PM

Don't lots of Republican insiders think Hilary would be easier to beat than Obama? Couldn't Drudge be one of them? This makes perfect sense in that light.

Posted by Chris | October 2, 2007 12:51 PM

Any comparison with the Kos is gratuitously offensive.

Wait, wasn't it just 10 days ago that unnamed Clintonites claimed Obama would beat their own anticipated $17-19 million? That was a real loud spin cycle. But wait, I will bet three quarters there will be a lot of dryer shrinkage when the next cash report comes out, if they don't conveniently omit the refunds and Q2 accounting error.

Posted by wizinit | October 2, 2007 1:41 PM

Yeah, what are the odds the Clinton camp is once again, you know, lying?

Posted by bob | October 2, 2007 3:29 PM

Terry McAullife on the 10am MSNBC News show, when questioned regarding federal lobbyists, the pac money, and the 10 million dollars the Clinton campaign transferred over from her previous NY Senate campaign funds, stated quite pointedly “…but we did transfer 10 million, so I will take the 80 million, Tameron, up to 90. Uh, I wasn’t including that in the 80’s, so if you want to use That number, we’re actually at 90 million.” (he was looking rather uncomfortable with what seemed a forced smile at that point IMO) Terry also quite noticeably did NOT say that the 10 million dollar transfer from Hillary’s state senate campaign funds was Not included in the 27 million 3rd quarter totals, only that they hadn’t yet been included in the Overall total yet.

In my perception, that would fully explain how Hillary all of a sudden Jumped from an expected 3rd quarter total of around 17 million a week or so ago to the reported 27 million of today… less of course the 5 million which had to be transferred to her General election fund. Would that mean that almost 5 million of her 22 million report came from her senate race funds? By my calculations, that would put her back down at her 17 million estimate.

Very Interesting don’t you think!

Sincerely,
Pastor Daniel

Posted by Pastor Daniel | October 2, 2007 5:05 PM

Do you people REALLY want to go through another Presidency in which Clinton and Drudge are the key players?

Fricking groundhog day. Followed in four to eight years by the latest Bush. followed by Chelsea?

Come on people.

Posted by DrFrankLives | October 2, 2007 6:06 PM

Great call, Marc. Too bad the MSM is so enthralled with the idea of reconnecting with their Clinton White House sources after eight (LONG) years of F-You from BushCo. They'll sing this song until it's in their best interest to turn on HillBilly and you'll start reading "The Race for the Democratic Nomination Heats Up" stories again. The Beast must continually be fed.

The fact is no one knows how the primary-vs.-general money will play out – or what it means – so it’s a stretch at best to include that in tea-leaf-reading about Presidential fundraising. The HUGE and CRUSHES language was hyperbole - even for Drudge.

The other fact, therefore, is that 22-19 ain’t a blowout. The Hill editors, for example, hyperventilated with lines like this: “… Clinton came out with a crushing number that underscores the perspicacity of the recent punditry.”

Besides, she has the Fundraiser In Chief on her side. This is Dog Bites Man. That she only beat Obama by 3 mil with such an advantage ought to be the story.

Four years ago, at the Linn County dinner 10 days out from the caucuses, Kerry was seen by folks in the room as Dead Man Walking. Dean was taking a victory lap; it had been “over” for months. How’d that one work out?

It ain’t over and HillBilly has nowhere to go but down. Clinton Fatigue is officially underway. If all she can do is 22-19, if I’m Sen. Obama I’m sayin’ “Is that all you got?”

Posted by Mr. Luxury Yacht | October 3, 2007 5:16 PM