Begs the question, though, how much is for the primary?

This is excellent news for .... wait for it...

I think Obama may raise somewhere between $40 to $50 million dollars.

Yeah, I feel like Hillary is just turning into a masochist...she is just asking to get one-upped by Obama, yet again.

Thank you sir may I have another?!

I don't believe it. It doesn't make sense. There is no way that she raised this much just for the primaries. It's coming from the clintons and I guess that means that we should take them at their word. We all know how much that is worth.

It truly never gets old. I *love* this post! :)

$35 million is chump change! I piss that out every morning on the way to Starbucks for my latte.

Let's not forget to subtract the debt that the Clintons carried into the month.

It's "considerably more" NOT "even more", Greg (in the link to this story).

Why not use the actual words from the Obama Campaign's quote in the link to this story on the front page. It would certainly fit.

It's these little things that really get me on a site I love visiting daily.

I don't know if you do this deliberately or subconsciously, but why make that change in wording if not to downplay the headline?

Oh, and I forgot:

I think ALL HRC's numbers are BULL.

Just like the 1st quarter of 2007 where they claimed victory over Obama's figure by a few mil and then months they had to "correct" the total DOWN, due to a "bookkeeping" error.

I suspect these numbers, whether 24 or 35, are BULL and meant more to keep her big contributors and super-delegates in line.

Even if we believe they've been racking in 1,000,000 a day. That's 29 million for the month, not 35.

I still think THAT'S bull or these some detail they are leaving out, like... ANOTHER LOAN.

Bahahaha

Holy cow will you Clinton posters please stop whining.

Your candidate hasn't won a primary in over a month and she's been substantially out fundraised over that period as well.

Clinton is lucky she's getting any positive coverage at all. Were she a lesser known quantity, the media would have been treating her pretty much like Huckabee, a non factor, since the Wisconsin primary.

Get a grip.

What happens to those funds if Hillary bows out of the race after March 4th? Can she transfer them to the DCCC (say) or what?

Off-Topic, but could someone tell Josh Marshall to either A) grow a beard or B) shave? Every episode of TPM TV he looks like he just woke up from a 3-day bender, for pete's sake.

ditto that

$35M for Hillary? That is great news... for Mark Penn.

I wonder how much of that goes to him?

For the sake of argument say he raises $55 million in February.

Obama Jan & Feb. totals: $91 million
Clinton Jan. & Feb totals: $50 million
$41 million buys a lot of tv time.

McCain raised $12.5 in January.
Even if he raises $20 million in February, he is still monumentally behind either democrat.

Hey now... I am a committed Obamanite and Aimey is maybe a bit, um insulting but she has a point that $35M is not chump change. Good for Hillary.
I think she actually got a lot of that from her base- blue collar workers & women, she probably doesn't have much left to tap into for the high $ people. Besides, now that it looks like Obama will win, I am willing to give HRC a little press boost for a few days considering the last few weeks have had to have been rough. I don't think it will matter on Tues.

Either way, it bodes well for Dems in the fall whoever the nominee is because there is no way in hell McCain will ever even come close to this. I think it also bodes well for gov't because it shows that the people you need to keep happy are the people donating to your campaign -- which in both Dem cases are John/Jane Q Public.

Of course that being said, I am really anxious to see Obama's number for the month. As someone who contributed a couple of times - including just a few minutes ago... I want to know how we did.
This of course is the real power of his campaign - the WE.

FYI: boys and girls,

Clinton Raises Over $35 Million, Gets 200,000 New Donors in February

Here is a personal anecdote. I have been involved in politics off and on since I was two years old. I drove a press van during the first B. Clinton run. Now, I am pushing 40. Over the years I have given sporadically in amounts ranging from $50 to $200 (if I really, REALLY liked a candidate). Last week, I wrote a check to Obama for significantly more than that. I intentionally marked it for the G.E.. My reasoning is that he, unlike Hillary, has more than enough for the primary season. If he loses the nomination, it won't be for lack of money. In the event he is the nominee AND does a deal with that skunk McCain (who I used to like) and goes for the campaign finance limits, I will be asking for a refund. Then, I'll turn around and write a check for the same amount to a pro-Obama 527. McCain is trying to sucker him in to public financing because a) McCain can't compete in fundraising and b) KNOWING he will have well-funded 527s out there to do the dirty work on race, religion and terrorism.
This election is too important, on any number of issues, to play by idealistic standards. I back Obama in hopes that on policy issues he can lead this country out of the partisan morass. however, I suffer no illusions about the lengths the other side will go to in order to retain power. Thus, I will not be fighting "fair." Screw them the way they've screwed the country and the world.

Why does Aimey keep talking about "Aqueda?"

Who is that? And why is she so concerned about them taking over Iraq?

Perhaps in a future debate we should question Clinton about this new and previously unknown threat.

The NYT breaks her fundraising down, although you have to sort through the text a bit.

HRC raised $35M in Feb.
$30M was over the internet
200K new donors for 300K in total
Average was $100
All but $1M is available for the primary
http://thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/02/28/obama-camp-says-it-will-outraise-clinton/

Aimey - You started your post with the phrase "Hey Obamabots," and went on to discuss about the importance of demonstrating respect by way of addressing people appropriately.

When you're prepared to demonstrate even a modicum of "respect" for the reasonable people on this site who simply fail to share your views, you might have a leg to stand on. Otherwise, the credibility train left the station quite a while back.

Son, I'm telling the truth. If you cannot handle it, too bad!!!

36 million dollars is an incredible amount. More than any other politician in history has raised in a month except for what Sen. Obama raises. The point is, it shows Sen. Clinton will be well funded going forward. If money were all that mattered Romney would be the Republican nominee or Giuliani, but McCain won with far less money. It shows that Sen. Clinton will be able to compete going forward and that she is developing a growing base of small donors, just like Obama that she can go to again and again. If he bests her this month good for him. But if you look at how much she increased in fundraising from January (I think 12 million or so) to Feb. (36 million)she has shown a three fold increase, which means she has very good prospects for fundraising as the race goes on, should she win OH and/or TX.

Nothing the Clinton campaign says can be taken on face value till the details are released in their filing. We cannot tell how many "grassroots" donors she has added this month, not where the greater portion of the donations came from till then. For one, in the last three days alone I received four separate donor solicitations signed by President Clinton, each one claiming that Hillary has been outspent once again and we must donate *more* immediately to keep her competitive. Every morning there was yet another different email in my box. My suspicion is that whatever grassroots donors she's identified lately must have been driven to max already with those relentless appeals. We'll wait to see. Compare the Obama campaign, throughout February I did not receive more than three donor solicitations and, they leave you alone once you've made a donation because it's all properly tracked and they're cautious not to max out donors or pressure them. Not a single one of the emails that I received said anything about how I must hurry and make a donation because the other campaign has just bought another TV ad, unlike the Clinton appeals. Someone mentioned that Senator Clinton must be a masochist, hanging by the thread and asking for more. Very well. In the end, none of it will help. The simple math is: even if she wins EVERY primary from now till June by a 15-point margin, she still won't be able to close the pledged delegate gap thanks to proportional delegate allocation. Anyone here who doubts it is free to pull out their calculator and take a whack at the math. In effect, all she can gain is a psychological boost to keep keeping on. But the bitter end will eventually come, and no matter what noise so-called super-delegates make now, there is no way they'll overturn the popular mandate. So, it's really just a case of taking all the punches while putting off the inevitable. Will she win Ohio and Texas? Who knows? Still won't matter. Hopefully, come Wednesday morning someone will find the courage to tell her that she may enjoy the bruising but she ain't no Muhammed Ali. Time for the next challenger; this fight is up. Enough blood on the canvas already.