Yawn...

Merely $320K, wake me up when the real money arrives.

Seriously though, after a $7 million + day yesterday, this seems like chump change, although I guess that it moves the two day total over $8 million, which is very good.

Oh brother, I really can't stand moveon.org. They jumped on the fundraising bandwagon to get press. Give me a break. Why didn't they do it before super tuesday?

I am sure the pharma/defense/insurance lobbyists that have supported HRC in the past will come through again, and Bill is set to net $20M plus from his Ron Burkle deals. I wish the Clintons would disclose their financials, as well as the donor lists for the library- why is this so secret? Remember the Rich pardons? And Bill's little Kazakhstan trip? If we do not address this now and nominate her, this is what the GOP will be talking about for the next few months...
Obama's money comes from thousands of new voters he's bringing into to party; it;s really a miracle and a tribute he gets this far, against the Hillary, Inc. machine and the establishment interests!

Michael A.....will you forsake BO if he does unify with HRC? Will you not vote? What will you do if I am correct?

Well, thank god HRC's senior staff is getting paid again. I was worried they weren't going to be able to keep the lights on out in Ballston. It looks like Obama will have a meaningful fundraising advantage the rest of the way. But HRC's fundraising haul of $6 mil is impressive. As is BHO's $7+ mil take. It's like two heavyweight fighters slugging it out round after round.

Kefa, that is the saddest, most bass-ackward spin I've heard in a long time. So in your estimation, inspiring average people to donate $25 apiece because they believe in your campaign is somehow gaming the system, but using your personal fortune to buy your way to the nomination is honest politics? Wow.

Why don't you ask Bill Clinton about your line of "reasoning"?
"We are very frustrated because we have a Supreme Court that seems determined to say that the wealthier have more right to free speech than the rest of us... For example, they say you couldn’t stop me from spending all the money I’ve saved over the last five years on Hillary’s campaign if I wanted to, even though it would clearly violate the spirit of campaign finance reform."

Clinton says that she has now raised $6MM in a day and now everyone is being paid again.

It's sort of typical Clinton style to release this info in a guarded, packaged, spun manner.

Let's contrast this with Obama's method: a real-time counter on his webpage.

That's the difference between old-style and open, new-style. Think about it, Obama throws open the books, HRC's are closed.

So much for the examination process that HRC wants to claim.

This isn't spin, it's just clear thinking.

didnt chris matthews make an apology regarding his so called "buffonery"? and wouldnt that make emily's list call for money because of him a bit disingenuis?

I guess chris' apology wasnt good enough for emily.

If Hillary's loan of $5 million to her campaign was so noble and if she doesn't mind putting up her own money for her cause, then why did the terms of her loan state she would be payed back in three days?

On the VEEP topic:

Do not expect anyone to want the VEEP job with HRC. She and Bill have advertised that *they* are the team. HRC's VEEP will be the most marginalized in history.

Harold Stassen (look it up) wouldn't even want that job. And he's dead.

This isn't spin, it's just clear thinking.

Thats why the old guard is backing him....yeah yeah
save that crap for the college kids that don't know any better.

Kefa, this comment system is really screwed up. I was trying to answer you the first time. Tell you what if you are right, I'll buy you a lunch. Also, if she wins, I plan on voting for her anyway regardless of the vp.

Whats pissing you all off is despite all the money, all the press, all she was dead after Iowa, all the big mo, all the NH press ding donging the witch is dead, MSNBCing she is dead gotta have CALi she is still here. Nobody, nobody could have taken the beating she has taken and still be on top and you all can not take it. She beat the shit out of the coalition of press of right/left wingers plus the Kerry/Kennedys/Obama you name it's and she still won and as of today she is 13 freakin points up. She just pisses you off and I just love it. She is one tough bitch. Tough enough to sit in the Oval Office.

Kefa if you're so gung-ho on a Clinton-Obama ticket, why do you spend so much time badmouthing him? Just wondering.

Dear Kefa,

Those Sr. Party Dems who back Obama do so for one of 2 reasons:

a) They recognize that the Clintons are not good for the Dem party long term

and

b) They recognize that Obama appeals to the exact same group that jumped ship for the GOP and Reagan in 1980. This is a singular opportunity to expand the Dem Party base to the middle and upper middle class (the same voters that the Dems need to carry the election as a mandate).

Of course, the old guard includes many of those who donated $2.3K in 2006-7 to HRC and endorsed her. Clearly, this represents the old political machine that the Clinton's control. For example, HRC won MA because she had the Boston Mayor's blessing. As a sophisticated politico, I'm sure you know that controlling and policing the precincts is at the very local level, not the state level.

Funny things happen in elections. Like the confusing voter ballot situation in Los Angeles this week. The same Los Angeles where HRC was tight with the Mayor.

This is the old guard to which I refer to. I'm sorry if there was confusion.

This isn't spin, it's just clear thinking.

Of course she will. The Clintons have a whole lot of money but I wonder where it all came from? Last time I checked politicians didn't earn that much. Obama is not a multi-millionaire, he just paid off his student loans 3 years ago. I would much rather have a President that had an idea what it is like to actually be a normal person in America. The Clintons really have no idea.

Merely $320K

Well as the saying goes.....time will tell. :)

Love to all my Dem brothers and sisters.

I think the Clintons owe us openness about Bill's financial dealings - if don't talk about it now, and she gets the nomination, the GOP will bring it all up, including Bill's deals with Kazakhstan autocrats, the Saudis and Dubai. We cannot afford not to "vet them"!

TPC, actually that's a very, very, very good point. Obama should say thanks, but no thanks, pointing to this policy. Maybe then moveon.org would just STFU. They do more damage than good. Hopefully, the mainstream media didn't pick up this stunt. I'm still pissed about the betrayus ad. That totally screwed up the dem strategy in congress and screwed up public opinion for moveon.org to get media attention and contributions.

I wonder why Hillary did not immediately hold a news conference yesterday to correct the misconception that some of her staff were working without pay. Was the delay a part of the 'woe is me' appeal to get more contributions from sympathetic supporters? Was it to get a twofer in the media on the same topic, or part of a larger strategy to keep media focus? Or, maybe Penn focus-grouped to determine that the story of staff working without pay offered just too much a picture of desperation.

At any rate, that long delay might have some of her donating base feeling a bit 'taken advantage of' as well as the delayed news that their donations will actually be used to pay back Hillary's loan [she who is worth millions wants those little people to pay her back!]

There is a strong whiff of manipulation coming out of Hillary's campaign. Yesterday, I read something on Taylor Marsh's site advising maxed-out donors to ignore the donation ceiling by joining Emily's list to funnel more money to Hillary through that group [not one commenter spoke up to criticize that suggestion].

Whatever the true story behind the Hillary loan and fake news about non-paid staff supporting a plea for donations, I see that it backfired and truly motivated the grassroots folks in the Obama camp. The Hillary camp ante was matched and doubled by the Obama camp.

The point is not how much you can raise, but how much you can raise that you are allowed to spend on the primary. Hillary has traditionally been raising 25% of her money that can only be used on the general election. It wouldn't surprise me if they've squeezed big donors lately effectively increasing that amount. Obama's general election percents have been very small.

If I had to take a WAG, I'd guess the primary dollars in this brief fundraising spurt were 7 million vs. 4 million. I'd also guess that Obama is able to sustain that advantage and in fact increase it, over the long haul.

And FWIW, I have no dog in this fight since I didn't and wouldn't vote for either candidate.

At least I agree with moveon on all the issues which is more than I can say about any Presidential candidate. I kind of like being represented. It's such a quaint old democratic thing.