NEW ORLEANS, Feb. 7, 2008
Dems Raised Millions Each Since Tuesday
Barack Obama Has Raised $7.2 Million Since Super Tuesday, Hillary Clinton $6.4 Million
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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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See all 77 CommentsHillary 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.
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 . . .
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 . . .
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.
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.
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
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
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.
WHen asked if Michelle Obama would support Hillary if she wins the nomination, she says:
http://www.talkleft.com/story/2008/2/4/124123/6787
If Bill or Hillary said that, there''d be hell to pay!
So Michelle, you''d have to think about supporting Hillary over McCain?
Personal much?
That''s NOT PRESIDENTIAL.
Then again, a guy who tears his own party down to build himself up isn''t that great of a progressive anyways.
Why IS the media puffing Obama up? Sorry but after the media''s pass on Bush''s mistakes and incompetence, I''m going the opposite direction of the media.
So it turns out the Clinton campaign may not be so cash-strapped after all %u2014 at least not at this very moment. After offering on Wednesday to go without paychecks to help save precious campaign resources, senior staff members on Hillary Clinton''s campaign are in fact not going without pay during the month of February, ABC News has learned.
"It''s not happening," said a source familiar with the situation. Clinton''s campaign has been shouting from the rooftops all day about its online fundraising efforts since Super Tuesday. The campaign announced today that it raised more than four million dollars online in the 24 hours after polls closed on Tuesday %u2014 the biggest single haul in one day ever for the campaign. One longtime Democratic consultant not affiliated with any campaign wondered if perhaps the whole thing wasn''t a big stunt to garner media attention and look like an "underdog."
"I''d take this revelation as a sign that they planned this whole thing," the consultant said. The source familiar with the situation also believes Senator Clinton will not need to loan herself any more cash. On Wednesday it was revealed that Hillary Clinton had given her campaign an infusion of $5 million back in January.
akona2 check your facts
akona2 check your facts
Contrary, Obama is the only hope to reunite this Nationand to make many changes for the good of all Americans.
Obama is not a Muslim, in fact, he is a Christian, and he is as patriotic as I am. One has only to hear Obama and his wife speak, they exude optimism, patriotism, and change for the good.
If you want four more years of the corrupt Clinton twins,(check back on their Arkansa years and their felony friend Hsu and his contributions, you will be making a great mistake. "If you live in a glass house, you should not throw stones". Both are part of Washington''s "good ole boys/girls" club. Just more of the same and that is not what we wanted when we gave the democrats a mandate for change.
Be careful, the Clintons may not be what you really want or need.
I am a 72 year old white veteran.
I-s barack HUSSEIN OBAMA a MUSLIM or NOT?
S-eek for the truth, is that you say
A-ll of you who thought you knew
S-eek for a DNA test and you will know
T-he father is a MUSLIM, the brother and sister are MUSLIMs.
E-ducated in MUSLIM school
R-ight under our nose that we might not know...
DISASTER is spelled out if we get the FIRST MUSLIM PRESIDENT.
Here in Australia the campaigning usually goes on for only 6 weeks thus the money can be spent where the real needs are..
I wonder if these would beeeees would raise this sort of money for others after they get into government eh... of course not..
I am disgusted at the trillions spent on your elections.. and the length of time it takes to elect the top person especially as there are many Americans who don''t vote and don''t care who is in government as they see no use in voting..the poor still continue to be poor, the sick still are sick.
All these hopeful candidates seem to care about is themselves and how many lies they can tell the public so as some will be fooled by their lies and vote them in to government.
Here in OZ, we have the left doing so much vote rigging that we would never know who really won, and what amazes me is that unless you are in the know, just how much they can fool the people into turning their lies and deciept into something that the other party has done..
You NEED O, You NEED change, You Need hope, You NEED O, You NEED O, You NEED change, You Need hope, You NEED O, You NEED change, You Need hope, You NEED O, You NEED change, You Need hope,
Repeat after me and tith at O.com we NEED money..
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Posted by spinster2
If anything your the one whos a racist. I got a lot fo friends who are white boys and I even got a white gal. Sounds to me like you just don''t want anybody to help the poor people or my brothers and sisters in africa.
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Posted by whoopsnake at 03:25 PM
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whoopsnake I don''t care about sports but you sound like a racist to me. You probably got your pants hanging down with a hood over your head when you go out in public.
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