Update From Hillaryland

Sen. Clinton's decision to beat Obama to Nevada means that she is definitely contesting the state, whether or not he has an edge there. Union endorsements don't usually mean too much, but Nevada is a caucus, and that means that there is no secret ballot, and that means that the 60,000 members of the Culinary Workers Local 226 in Las Vegas will be expected to turn out and expected to publicly caucus for Barack Obama or face, at the very least, significant pressure from their peers.

One sign of ferment: in an extremely unusual decision, the campaign decided to let reporters listen to its internal fundraising telephone conference with top fundraisers, on which the campaign chairman and others spoke candidly about the campaign's financial situation and prospects and previewed strategy.

On the call, campaign chairman Terry McAuliffe promised to outraise Barack Obama through January, said the campaign had received more than $5M in pledges since last night, and hinted that the campaign had been low on cash reserves since Jan. 1.

Comments

The way Senators Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama are going at each other, I hope they are reserving their best in guts, skills, wits and cash for the presidential election against the Republicans.

God help them.

The divine intervention of the Almighty God gave Hillary Clinton victory over her Democratic rivals in New Hampshire.

Posted by Orikinla Osinachi | January 10, 2008 10:49 AM

Terry McAuliffe is an arrogant piece of crap who is willing to go into gutter and worse if that's what it takes to win. He represents everything that's wrong with the Clinton machine and his incompetence as party chairman is one reason why we are stuck with W's second term. Frankly, I don't care if she outraises Barack Obama; his financial support is far more broad-based and less reliant on corporate types. Clinton has the benefit of Bill's rolodex and his political machine. Frankly, the fact that the fundraising race is even close is a credit to Barack Obama, not Hillary Clinton.

Posted by jbentley4 | January 10, 2008 1:13 PM

To jbentley 4: If we learned anything in New Hampshire, it is that we have two great candidates with strong potential to win. Lets get together and tone down the anger. Please.

Posted by jjsf | January 10, 2008 9:54 PM

Asking these irrational Hillary-haters to turn down the anger is like asking fish to give up on water. These people need their hatred of Hillary to keep going.

I'm just glad the public isn't buying it anymore. The more these people bash and attack Hillary, with their bloated, fire-breathing lies, the more sympathetic and resilient she looks. I really hope they keep it up. She could use more backlash votes.

Posted by David | January 11, 2008 11:37 AM

Hilary probably would not have won NH without a deceptive attack on Obama for voting present on abortion issues in the Illinois state senate. Her campaign made it sound like this was Obama's doing - but it was a strategy of the Illinois Democrats in the state senate as a whole. And Obama has 100% ratings from abortion rights groups.

And now people on her side are filing a bullcrap suit in Nevada.

I've never voted Republican in my life and probably never will. But Hilary was always going to have a tough time getting my vote, and the way she's going she can forget it.

Posted by Jeremy Goldberg | January 13, 2008 4:36 AM