The reports of the death of her donor base have been exaggerated...
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Bill go back to Kazakhstan?? Oh, you mean Hillary raised $4m. 
Well, we already knew she was capable of raising millions of dollars, since she did that in January. The more relevant question is whether she is capable of returning to a rough fundraising parity with Obama, after having fallen so far behind in January. And so far the post-Super Tuesday answer to this question, once you look at both sets of numbers, appears to be "no", but we shall see.
The media declares Clinton's candidacy dead almost on weekly basis. Their wishful thinking is really clouding their journalism integrity and objectivity. I really thought after New Hampshire they would wise up.
Has anyone actually verified this???
Of course the "Clinton is in trouble" stories are just as inevitably followed by the "Clinton makes comeback" stories, and equally without regard to the actual facts. And the media will keep repeating the same narrative cycles over and over as long as they keep selling. That is nothing new.
As an Obama suppporter, I actually think this is a good thing. If it looks like Obama is crushing Hillary too much in fundraising, its going to allow her to Pull a Huckabee and yuk it up when she wins a primary because she was supposedly at such a disadvantage. I actually don't think it is in the Obama campaign's interest to rub in the moeny advantage too much because it could generate sympathy money for her and complacency among Obama donors going forwards. The clinton camapign is going to try to protray itself as underdogs despite all her historical, institutional, and demographic advantages and it woluld be wise for the Obama campaign to message as humbly as possible. I think the use of this story yesterday was to sow some doubt among insiders, media, and superdelegates about Hillary's viability...but I think the message has been sent and the Obama campaign should be careful about not being perceived as a money goliath piling on. The clintons are great at doing jujitsu in these situations and claiming to be "comeback kids." The Obama folks should do everything they can from falling into that spin trap.
Seriously - where is this coming from? Other than the unverified email from the Clinton camp listed on Taylor Marsh's site - who else is reporting this?
RKA is right. The message has been sent. Hillary is not in great shape. The issue isn't so much can she raise money, but can she manage it! Is to sent troops to war, but do you know what to do with them. She spent 37 million on her senate campaign against a nobody. She had 100 Mil to spend and total name dominance and still went broke trying to pull even. CNN is already reporting that "Hillary has paid herself back" by raising all this money in one day. No mention of the Obama tally. Let reporters dig around about what money was used to pay herself a loan and how much more she will have to self-fund. Let's keep our heads down on the fundraising - we've made our point already. Now we need to win February handily-that's all that matters. Hillary has already conceded everything up to Ohio and Texas. Anything she wins before then is going to be HUGE for her. If she "comesback" - it has to be seen as her averting her own self made disaster by not planning and managing well in the first place. Sort of like Bush and the Iraq war. Should have won it handily, but didn't, barely scraps by until she can regroup for a late "surge" that saves her from herself - great narrative can't wait for 8 more years of Bush incompentancy from "day one."
Poor Management and Poor Judgement. Sorry but these are not qualities I want to see in our next President. She has lost my vote and a lot of my friends when we heard about this. How can she run our country and she can not even manage her employees and campaign finances correctly. So we have to pay her back for her poor judgement, interesting.... Ben, shame on you trying to spin her huge weakness as a leader. Posted By: Nancy | February 07, 2008 at 09:41 AM
Spinning victimhood into political opportunity. Usually I'm dubious of claims of this, but in the case of Hillary Clinton the charge is wholly warranted. She pissed away her money by focusing solely on California and the NY market. And the net result was getting crushed everywhere else and ending up tied in the pledged delegate count. So she cried about going broke and her supporters said, "Awwww. I'm so sad for poor Hillary. Now I'll support her." Add to this the whiny "Obama supporters are just so MEAN to her. I'll show'em." I'm sure such a display of self-loathing and self-pity will do wonders in the general election.
It is sexist bullshit to claim she mis-managed money. that's a stereotype assholes adopt to badmouth women. what century are you fellas from? It is the nature of organizations to generate and spend money. Money comes into some businesses cyclically: notice all the white sales in stores in january in answer to such cycles. My town has an incredible bond rating but borrows money. Don't be ridiculas. windfalls here and shortfalls and pleas for money are normal. Kerry loaned and gave money to his campaign. Edwards gave and gave to his. Why is it passion and belief for them but when the hillary campaign does it the sexist daggers come out? They sold books just like barack. MLK sold books and JFK sold books and nixon sold books and Eleanor Rooseveldt sold books and frigging oprah sells books. try to either be more consistant with your criticism or less consistant with your nonsensical hatred.
only 26 percent of obama's money comes from small donors and that means that his campaign is lying when they call it grass roots. 74 percent are bigger donors. only 12 percent of hillary's are small donors but both these campaigns are completely dependent and or beholden to large donors. some of the narrative of his campaign is kind of a lie.
She can now almost pay Mark Penn's bill...
Am I the only person that's worried that the entire democratic fundraising well is going to be dry come May when the real fight begins? What sort of effect is a $300 million + primary going to have on general election fundraising?
JK, I think you don't have to worry. If Obama is the nominee, all the money and time spent organizing throughout the country in the primary will be useful in the general to turn out the vote...there will already be a campaign infrasturcture in lpace in many states that had not been in place had this wrapped up early.
Elroy: is your therapist out of town this week? Anger problems? there's got to be an anger support group somewhere.
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SOURCE???
(other than Taylor Marsh...)
Posted by David | February 7, 2008 8:40 AM