Dems Raised Millions Each Since Tuesday

(CBS/AP)  Democratic Sen. Barack Obama has raised $7.2 million for his presidential campaign since the first polls closed on Super Tuesday night, his campaign said Thursday.

Hours later, Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton's campaign announced that it has raised $6.4 million dollars since polls closed on Tuesday, and $7.5 million online this month.*

Obama, riding a wave of fundraising from large donors and small Internet contributors, also raised $32 million in January.

Clinton acknowledged Wednesday that she loaned her campaign $5 million late last month as Obama was outraising and outspending her heading into Feb. 5 Super Tuesday contests. But the Clinton campaign Thursday boasted of 40,000 new donors online since Super Tuesday and said it raised more than any other candidate in 2007.

Some senior staffers on Clinton's campaign were voluntarily forgoing paychecks as the campaign headed into the next round of contests. Clinton campaign chairman Terry McAuliffe said Thursday that all staff are now "100 percent paid."

Obama and Clinton outpaced all candidates in 2007, with each raising $100 million.

The Obama campaign said on its Web site that $7.2 million has been received since Tuesday evening. Campaign spokesmen said they were confident the figure was accurate.

Buoyed by strong fundraising and a primary calendar in February that plays to his strengths, Obama plans a campaign blitz through a series of states holding contests this weekend and will compete to win primaries in the Mid-Atlantic next week and Hawaii and Wisconsin the following week.

He campaigned in Louisiana Thursday. The state holds its contest Saturday.

Clinton, presumably less confident of her prospects in the February contests, will instead concentrate on Ohio and Texas, large states with primaries March 4 and where polling shows her with a significant lead. She even is looking ahead to Pennsylvania's primary April 22, believing a large elderly population there will favor the former first lady.

McAuliffe said today that the Clinton campaign would have a "huge" February in terms of fundraising, however. The campaign also announced that it would begin advertising in Washington State, Maine, and Nebraska.

Also Thursday, Clinton's campaign manager, Patti Solis, sent a letter to the Obama campaign seeking five debates between the two candidates before March 4.

"I'm sure we can find a suitable place to meet on the campaign trail," Solis wrote. "There's too much at stake and the issues facing the country are too grave to deny voters the opportunity to see the candidates up close."

Obama rejected a debate proposed as soon as this Sunday to be broadcast on ABC, but his campaign spokeswoman Jen Psaki said Thursday, "there will definitely be more debates, we just haven't set a schedule yet."

*CORRECTION: This story has been revised to reflect the fact that Clinton raised $6.4 million, not $7.5 million, since Super Tuesday.

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IN RESPONSE TO A PREVIOUS COMMENT:
Hillary doesn''t have to SAY "we" when reading a speech that someone else wrote thousands of times. She already has performed for "we" when she worked hard to change the lives of millions of children with the health insurance program and has been saying "we" for 35 years. Obama can say "we" all he wants but only naive people believe his content-free garbage.

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PS It''s so telling to contrast the websites of the two candidates - when I went to Barack''s he''s got scrolling headlines, and one of the first to appear urges people to ''Help The Storm Victims'' with a link to the Red Cross'' website (there are also headlines touting his primary victories, the Ted Kennedy endorsement, and that cool video that some of his supporters made)

You go to Hillary''s site and she''s got a humongous red ''$7million'' money goal with her cackling mug staring at the $$$ and a huge ''contribute'' button. Then down below once you get over the jarring visuals and scroll down you see an American Red Cross logo.

Too much . . .

[samthetvcat]

"Hours later, Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton''s campaign announced that it has raised 7.5 million dollars since polls closed on Tuesday, 6.4 million of it within the last 24-30 hours."

The associated press is actually reporting that Hillary raised $6.4million since Super Tuesday, not $7.5 million. And Politico.com is reporting that Clinton raised $7.5 million since Feb. 1, not since Super Tuesday.

Are CBS'' figures accurate? They don''t seem to jibe with what everybody else is reporting . . . usually the first sign of bias is seeing what one wants to see rather than what is really there . . .

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Posted by destardi1 at 11:57 PM : Feb 07, 2008


Face it, Hilary and the Dem Party need Obama to play kissy face with Hilary and indicate if she is the nominee he will stump for her and kiss her azz and encourage his supporters to do likewise. It makes all of you nervous as hell to reallize that if Obama loses, the 50% of the Democratic votes he ahs thus far received may either opt out since he is no longer in the race or defect to McCAin--because the power of those voters and their loyalty to Obama makes him a key player, when the Democratic party would probably like to sideline him in favor of their heir apparent if it comes to a draw. I hope Obama tells you all to stick a VP offer and the fakeness up your hypocritical political azzes if he does not want to support Hilary-why should anyone support a person for the highest office in the land if they do NOT believe in them? If you want robots and koolaide drinkers , Hilary needs to take the mask off and embrace her neo con brotherhood and you should join her. The little Gold water girl already has a Republican pedigree.

[b-easy63]

WHen asked if Michelle Obama would support Hillary if she wins the nomination, she says:
So Michelle, you''''d have to think about supporting Hillary over McCain?


Posted by destardi1 at 11:57 PM : Feb 07, 2008


Michelle is honest, she does NOT have to support HIlary if she does not believe in her--none of us do--we are not Bushbots or Billarybots--bet you Hilary supporters can''t accept or understand that in a politician or his wife, now can you? Goes against everything you all hold dear. here''s some more truth for you--a lot of us Independents will go right back over and vote for McCain if Hilary is the nominee--we don''t have to think hard about it like Michelle--we will just do it and hopefully if enough of us go (or disenfranchised Obama supporters stay home or come with us) Hilary will not only lose the WH, she will be blamed for causing the latest defeat of her party to capture that branch.

[b-easy63]

obama is not a muslim
akona2 check your facts

Posted by butterfly572 at 06:39 PM : Feb 07, 2008


akona knows that--but Hilary gave him this one line to repeat on every board over and over--he will run it into the ground and hopefully drag Hilary''s support and smear tactics with him. LOL

[b-easy63]

DISASTER is spelled out if we get the FIRST MUSLIM PRESIDENT.

Posted by akona2 at 05:45 PM : Feb 07, 2008


Promise us you''ll kill yourself if he is elected, that ought to be good for about 23 million more votes for Obama. LOL

[b-easy63]

People like Whopsnake is one reason not to votew foe Obama.They want every thing and don''''t want to work for it.

Posted by Mistered9 at 03:03 PM : Feb 07, 2008


Yeah..whapsnake is probably sitting at the next cubicle beside yours in a Hilary "smear Obama" fvcking war room. PuTZ.

[b-easy63]

We know Obama gets most of his money from thousands of grass roots donors...did Billary lend themselves 5 million dollars again? LMAO

[destardi]

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/taylor-marsh/barack-obamas-progressiv_b_75933.html