Hilarious. Obama raised almost $8 million in 36 hours. BREAKING NEWS! Hillary camp desperate to spin the results in WA and NE!!

Yeah, but Obama rased, what $8 million in 24 hours. Who knows how much he's raised between Wednesday and today?

This $10m haul is totally unimpressive. Also, Obama just raked in two states and probably LA as well.

Yeah, greg. Seems like curious timing. Surely they knew this earlier in the day.

And what's with the exclamation point??

My Louisiana Exit Poll number crunching projects that Senator Obama will win in Louisiana by about 55%
to 44% for Senator Clinton.

What do you bet Obama already has between $20-25 million since Super Tuesday? I'll give you 2 to 1 odds if I'm wrong. That said, if I were Obama, I would keep my numbers to myself and spend her into the ground. Seeing as how she still has rents to pay back in NH, I can't imagine anyone's giving her rent credits anywhere she has to go in the future. That said, Obama should go up on TV in Ohio, Pennsylvania and Texas NOW. Blanket coverage!!! Scare them into cardiac arrest. And get Sherrod Brown to endorse and work for him.

Click on the "intrade" market to the right. Obama is up by over 4 points... above the number you see there. And Hillary is down by over 4 points!

They're giving him greater and greater odds. The two have reversed places since Super Tuesday.

That's not an election, of course. But it's a kind of poll... of how much money people are risking... what the odds are. Right now Obama's odds of getting the presidency beat both McCain and Clinton.

How much is for the primary?
How much is for the general?
I want to know the exact split.
How many of these 100,000 were "new" donors?

10 Million is impressive. For all we know, most of it are her big donors giving the general election $2,300 that they were holding off on and only a small percentage are small donors.

Also, will there be a "correction" due to a bookkeeping error they will find in 3 weeks (like during the first quarter of the primary in 2007 where it turns out Obama out-raised her in the final result, after the 'correction'? Remember that?

The Hillary camp, it seems to me, is desperate for some sort of obfuscation tonight and into tomorrow's news cycle.

Anything to take away attention from Obama's wins.

First, the press release about MSNBC and Schuster.

Then, the press release artificially raising expectations for Obama in LA and Maine, two states which have always been very close. If Hillary wins either of those states, it's positioned as a come from behind victory for her.

Now, the press release about the money just flooding in to support Hillary.

I predict that the tactic of making Hillary seem fallible or picked on will continue. (the N.H. tear drop, the media bashing, the 5 million she had to put into her own campaign to stay afloat)

Obama leads in Louisiana 52% - 38% with 10% reporting.

Oh, were you talking Hillary? I'm sorry to interrupt.

Hillary will probably win Maine tomorrow, so they will all of a sudden have to rethink all of their caucus trash talk.

And did MSNBC start showing MI & FL on Hillary's tote board today?

OW! OW! OWWWW! Sorry. I fell asleep half way through that headline and my head slammed into the edge of the keyboard. Damn! This hurts!

Liam, I thought something similar:

Clinton campaign accuses Olbermann of being the driver who hit and killed Buddy the dog.

Caucus States Campaigns:

Senator Obama was ready for them "On Day One". Guess who wasn't?

Wait, when did Socks die??

I hope Obama wins Maine, that would be cool. At the very least he will lose by a lot less than she lost everything today.

This is exactly the reason why I voted for Obama: he says what he means. The "playing nice" Hillary is a sham, like anything else. Her campaign is doing a horrendous job at least trying to make this look like a timely item. Everything comes out of her camp smelling like it's been cooking for too long.

hard to believe that a year ago hillary was inevitable. now they're pushing some desperate fundraising numbers as obama swoops in! their strategy has been to win from the bottom up, not the top down. no blatant media manipulation, no former president to serve as an attack dog.

bottoms up!!

Don't worry, Socks is fine. Inevitably, he has his own Wikipedia entry.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Socks_(cat)

Hillary said he had a serious case of hate at first sight with Buddy and when they left the White House they gave him to Bill's secretary rather than try to keep the two living together in an intolerable situation.

No snark. Its too easy. Besides, I always liked Socks.

and boom the media is already taking up this line from Clinton's.

I see some of the posters here have raised questions about Hillary's contributors and the percentage of small individual vs. large corporate contributions, and regarding full financial disclosure and income issues.

I fail to see what the big deal is (other than the innuendo from her opponent) regarding complete financial disclosure by Hillary Clinton as it relates to the 2008 Presidential campaign.

Here are some facts about Senator Clinton’s non-disclosure of campaign contributions and who her main corporate contributors are:

She has only refused to disclose 18% ($16 Million) of the over $101 Million raised as campaign donations in 2007 (1st quarter of 2008 disclosures due in late February).

Not only is PAC money completely irrelevant here, the fact is that ten of her top fourteen business contributors (with a total of $2.4 Million donated) were investment bankers, including Goldman Sachs ($422,000), Lehman Bros. ($251,000), J.P. Morgan ($241,000), Citigroup ($222,000), Jones Day ($182,000), Citidel Investments ($171,000), and Morgan Stanley ($155,000). Rounding out the top ten are legal firms ;-)

Also telling is that the top 10% of her contributors donated a mere 64% of the total cash that is financing Senator Clinton’s campaign!
That means that an impressive 36% of her total campaign contributions comes from the remaining 90% of contributors – that is, not just from other big business contributors, but quite a lot of that 36% is from small individual contributors.

I don’t see what all the fuss is about.

Oh, was I saying “Senator Clinton” all along here? I meant to say that all these things quoted above are on the record regarding Senator Obama’s campaign finances to date.

So, you can stop sputtering, foaming, and forming your retort now. It’s all kumbaya okay, don’t you see? It’s the Obama magic at work. Hillary does stuff like this = bad and bought and paid for. Obama doing the same things = change (somehow).

Yes, the above-cited facts and numbers regarding the breakdown of campaign contributors, the top financial contributors, and the non-disclosure of 18% of total campaign contributions are actually the numbers from Senator Obama’s 2008 presidential campaign to date.

http://www.opensecrets.org/pres08/contrib.asp?id=N00009638&cycle=2008

Now I understand that Obama supporters just know that the bulk of his financial support comes from dewy-eyed children who break open their piggybanks to send money to the only one who can help them realize their American dream (unless you’re one of Obama’s kids dreaming about becoming President like dad someday – his supporters don’t like “dynasties.”).

But facts are sometimes such sticky things to a true believer.

Greg, for God's sake, just quit this job and apply for an internship in Hillary's campaign. You are seriously not fooling anyone.

liam:

That's understandable. I mean how complicated can the tax return for a part-time US Senator from Illinois be?

liam:

Makes you wonder what the Obama campaign will roll out when Clinton wins Ohio and Texas big in a few weeks and reclaims the lead in delegates and popular vote going into Pennsylvania, doesn't it?

Last week after Hillary won the big blue and purple states (you know the ones with all the Democrats) - it was her personal loan to her campaign that got all the news. Can't blame her campaign for trying to use the same proven news smokescreen.

Obama in 2016!

Tell Hillary that she can actually deduct the huge dry cleaning expenses to have the Obama shoe polish stains removed from the seats of all her pants suits.

HRC has gotten 100,000 new supporters since super Tuesday, BHO has gotten 350,000 new supporters since the beginning of the year.

I think BHO has done a fantastic job fundraising and getting new people into the process. HRC thought that they had enough money and the race would be over by February 5. She miscalculated. One of the best thing that happened was when they disclosed the $5m she loaned the campaign.

This information awoke the sleeping giants of supporters who thought she didn't need help. In my opinion, it is not necessary for her to out-raise BHO although it would be nice. It is important that they raise enough money to go through May if necessary. And, $10m in 4 days is a lot of money no matter how you look at it. if this pace continues, that would amount to $40m for the month.

Thanks to BHO, both these candidates are changing the game forever. Regardless of who your candidate is, s/he is out-raising the Republicans by a wide margin. That spells well for the general.

As a Red Sox fan of the 21st century, I know that when things look worst, the brighter side is yet to come. Not that many more tiny caucuses, instead, good healthy primaries in Ohio, Pennsylvania, Indiana, etc where working families can go to the polls and do what they've done in almost every large state -- vote HRC!

Vote smart!

I really wish that Obama supporters who supposedly are for hope and unity would stop being so hateful and cynical about every little thing that Clinton does! Both candidates spin things to make themselves better and Obama is guilty of many of the things that his supporters hate Hillary for. I'm starting to believe that Obama's message of unity is being interpreted by his supporters as hope and unity only for those who love Obama and for those who love Hillary, let's spit them in the face and mock Hillary for every thing she does. It's petty and immature. If Obama can't unify his own party then how will he unify the country. If you love his message then please try to follow some of his advice.

I'm elated that Clinton raised lots of money online and I don't despise Obama because he too raised lots of money. No need to hate on Hillary...Obama also publicizes how much he raises online...and he also takes lots of money from corporations so stop with the hypocritical nonsense.

establishment candidate

can't you see Kennedy, Liebermen and Kerry standing behind Obama...don't you see their shadows over his should every time he speaks?

Look again...they are there.

My last two posts were in response to others...I'm sorry I didn't click the box...so they appear out of context.

establishment candidate is in esponse to wwjb's comment.

the second one is in response to the campaign finance comment.

sorry.

You know, the more I watch the Obamaites, the more I see them as cultists in a cult of personality that follows the messianic campaign of Obama. Obama is the Reagan of the Democrats, and like Reagan, he's a totally spineless Neville Chamberlain who gives up at every turn, has terrible personal views you can see the cracks (homophobic) yet is spun to be a great man.

Wake up and smell the coffee Obamaites, he's running Reagan's 1980 campaign all over again. I lived through that when I was still a Republican. It's a fairy story that, like all fairy stories, when you get your wish, you get exactly what you wish for. And then you have to live with the terrible consequences.

except for nebraska which is 96% white and washington which is always overwhelmingly white.