Hillary Raises $6.4 Million Since Tuesday
By Justin Gardner | Related entries in 2008 Election, Hillary, Money
Great news for the Clinton camp and Democrats in general. It’s not as much as Obama’s $7.2M take, but it’s damn close, and that has to be heartening for her camp.
But can the numbers be trusted? Marc Ambinder thinks so…
Some of you Clinton skeptics may be taken aback at the numbers coming from the Clinton campaign in part because they are so discordant. Generally, you don’t discover a small donor base overnight…unless you are the Obama campaign. And the question remains for us longform journalists: how did the biggest fundraising machine in history with the reportedly most brilliant campaign ever end up in this situation?But I’ve no reason to disbelieve the Clinton campaign today. If they’re raising this much money online, their major donors will feel pressure to work harder to bring in the larger donations. If they are nervous, those in their networks get nervous, and when they are bucked up, the ripple effect is the same.
Agreed. But the question is now: will these donors continue to give? Because while a nice post Super Tuesday bump is nice, she’s going to need to keep up with Obama in order to stop his momentum.
More as it develops…
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February 8th, 2008 at 7:14 am
This in the days leading up to the 2006 election. The democrats who used to always have this high road about spending exorbitant amounts of money and always refrained because of fundamental disagreements with a lavish showing of funds are no more.
2006 showed Obama what to do. Hillary still tried to slogg along within the framework of respecting the democratic position of holding to fiscal restraint. She has been caught in a Bill Clinton moment. You know, caught with her pants down.
That being said I think HIllary believed she had the nomination and was holding down the spending in favor of ramping up the cash cow for the general election. Now all bets are off. You aint seen nothing yet when it comes to spending money.
And that is sad because the Democratic party always had the high road against the GOP when it come to spending money and raising funds to campaign with, always complaining about being outspent by their supposedly RICH rivals.
Say it aint so Obama/Hillary.