Hillary And Obama Now Spending Almost Equally In North Carolina And Indiana
Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama have now reached parity in TV ads for the two upcoming primary states, an indication that Hillary's pre-Pennsylvania cash-flow problems have been fixed for the time being and she's able to compete on roughly equal terms.
A non-partisan analysis finds that Hillary and Obama have spent $100,000 per day each on TV ads in Indiana over the past week, the swing primary state that could very well determine whether Obama sews up the nomination or Hillary keeps the clock running. Meanwhile, Hillary is spending $135,000 per day in North Carolina, actually a little more than $120,000 per day by Obama.
However, Obama still has the total spending advantage here. Counting the time before Hillary's Pennsylvania win enabled her to rake in new cash, Obama has still outspent Clinton by about two-to-one in these states.
Burn through that money, Hillbabe.
I know what you're doing - you're making him spend and then you'll drop out.
You are so mean. But I always knew that.
April 30, 2008 6:18 PM | Reply | Permalink
Spend *what* money?!?
Isn't she already in debt, and he already has $30M since our last check from March?
She's like that crazy gambler that keeps throwing good money after bad... but if the Clinton Campaign came to me, I wouldn't accept anything except cash on delivery -- or up front.
Forget about being mean to Obama, she is screwing the gullible small businesses willing to float her.
April 30, 2008 6:26 PM | Reply | Permalink
Or, rather, an indication that Hillary is spending as much as she needs to, without regards to the amount of debt her campaign is in.
We all know the reports aren't due for another three weeks or so, so there's no reason not to spend now and...
April 30, 2008 6:19 PM | Reply | Permalink
Probably true.
I wasn't looking at it from a very strategic standpoint, admittedly.
;)
April 30, 2008 6:24 PM | Reply | Permalink
I tend to think that with Obama's warchest he probably could outspend Clinton if he thought it would be effective. Maybe he's scaling back or staying even with her because voters in PA were reportedly overwhelmed by his ad blitz? Just a thought...
April 30, 2008 6:22 PM | Reply | Permalink
Thanks for the information. Clinton must see these two contests (in spite of the trips to Oregon) as make-or-break contests.
Holy cow! I think I just had a brain fart. I was thinking that Clinton was assessing this in a rational way.
Clinton's spending all the money she has so that she can lose North Carolina, and squeak by in Indiana, and shout about momentum, and raise another 10 (unverifiable) million dollars a week from now...meanwhile, the pledged delegate difference remains the same, the superdelegates continue to trickle Obama's way, and suddenly, Kentucky is going to be THE.MOST.IMPORTANT.STATE.EVAH.
April 30, 2008 6:23 PM | Reply | Permalink
Hey - maybe this is their actual economic plans!
April 30, 2008 6:24 PM | Reply | Permalink
No. I ate their economic plan.
Meheheheh.
April 30, 2008 6:35 PM | Reply | Permalink
O I likes it.
April 30, 2008 6:40 PM | Reply | Permalink
Silly kid.
April 30, 2008 6:49 PM | Reply | Permalink
Oh little girl...just wait till goatselife shows up.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eBGIQ7ZuuiU
April 30, 2008 6:56 PM | Reply | Permalink
Daddy!
Meheheheh.
April 30, 2008 7:01 PM | Reply | Permalink
What I don't get is why Obama is spending any money on a campaign that he's already won! Shouldn't he saving all that cash for the general instead of spending 6 weeks in PA attacking Hillary and sending out fancy DVD mailers? And now he's spending a bunch of cash in IN and NC?
What gives?
April 30, 2008 6:24 PM | Reply | Permalink
When you're up 12 with 1:02 to play, you still have to snap the football a few times.
April 30, 2008 6:31 PM | Reply | Permalink
Honestly, are you really that dense and ignorant or are you just f*cking with us? We can throw that right back at you - if you're so confident your girl is gonna win, why is she spending tons of money? After all, she'll have the supers in her pocket come convention time, no? And she has far less of a cushion than Obama. Please, you really must try to do better here.
April 30, 2008 6:37 PM | Reply | Permalink
Nobody's saying that Hillary has ALREADY won. Some here have said that of Obama, which makes the question a good one.
April 30, 2008 9:45 PM | Reply | Permalink
I don't get how the SD's are not going with Clinton after all his lies and meltdowns with Wright.
Totally bizarre like they want to lose.
April 30, 2008 6:51 PM | Reply | Permalink
You appear to be experiencing cognitive dissonance.
Feel the burn!
April 30, 2008 7:17 PM | Reply | Permalink
Almost like they see reality differently from you. All of them.
Meheheheh.
April 30, 2008 7:50 PM | Reply | Permalink
Oh, this is priceless ... Hillary, a real member of the salt-of-the-earth working class - why, she even worked on the factory floor as a little girl, right (at least that was her latest whopper today)? Then how come she didn't know HOW TO OPERATE THE GODDAMNED COFFEE MACHINE? Come on, folks - let's be real here and stop buying into her bullshit "woman of the people" nonsense.
http://www.americablog.com/2008/04/its-hillary-vs-coffee-machine.html
April 30, 2008 6:35 PM | Reply | Permalink
I know I just love all that. She morphs into a boilermaker slinging rifle toting redneck for Pa and now she suddenly grew up working the line in the factory.
I"m sorry - I can't type anymore - I'm laughing too hard.
Next she'll tell us she didn't really go to law school.
LOL!!!
April 30, 2008 6:37 PM | Reply | Permalink
That's embarassing.
But, putting on the Hillary parsification hat here, if had been a regular old coffee machine, rather than some latte dispensing piece of trash from China, she would have known how to get the coffee.
See? It's all Nafta's fault.
April 30, 2008 6:40 PM | Reply | Permalink
I laughed until I realized we'd been had -- her supporters will shout that she's being made fun of again, just like in New Hampshire after the crying jag, and she'll use the clip to generate even more money...
I wish she'd put as much effort into reading the Iraq NIE as she's putting into that damn coffee machine. Sorry, I just can't let that NIE thing go. It says it all to me.
April 30, 2008 6:46 PM | Reply | Permalink
She is a US Senator troll.
They don't make the coffee.
That blog is another Obama loser blog.
It gets more silly everyday.
April 30, 2008 6:55 PM | Reply | Permalink
Coffee Grounds!
Crunchy!
Meheheheh.
April 30, 2008 7:03 PM | Reply | Permalink
Carol - Way for her to make a stand for women and their right to get ahead.
LOL!!
April 30, 2008 6:43 PM | Reply | Permalink
What I don't get is why Obama is spending any money on a campaign that he's already won! Shouldn't he saving all that cash for the general instead of spending 6 weeks in PA attacking Hillary and sending out fancy DVD mailers? And now he's spending a bunch of cash in IN and NC?
What gives?
Posted by Mark Simmons
April 30, 2008 6:24 PM
Of course you don't get it, short bus troll.
Now ready the following very slowly. It is alright to move your lips as you read, little troll.
Obama is a newcomer to the national scene. He is running ads to introduce himself to the voters, so they will have some recognition of him when he runs against John McCain.
Now go rest that wee pea brain of yours poor little addled troll.
April 30, 2008 6:48 PM | Reply | Permalink
You are not the brightest wanker that crossed the pond are you?
April 30, 2008 7:02 PM | Reply | Permalink
Another $50 to Clinton.
April 30, 2008 6:51 PM | Reply | Permalink
Matched by the $50 I tossed to the Barack earlier today (and exceeded by the lovely unknown folks who I was told later matched my donation).
April 30, 2008 6:55 PM | Reply | Permalink
Ooo I love matching donations.
I've hit as many of those as I could.
Chickyfogu2(so clever - is your ball team called the Nads, too?) - your fiddy got drowned by my donation+matching donation+donations 1 and 2 last week.
;)
April 30, 2008 6:58 PM | Reply | Permalink
You're donations are irrelevant. Obama already has all the money he needs to oversaturate all the markets. You can't buy this election. Money cannot buy credibility.
So keep sending in your money. It's going down a rat hole.
April 30, 2008 7:42 PM | Reply | Permalink
Hmmm. Chicken!
Salty!
Meheheheh.
April 30, 2008 7:51 PM | Reply | Permalink
Did you just eat Obama the Chicken!
April 30, 2008 8:38 PM | Reply | Permalink
Apparently not. It's still here.
Must've been the rat.
Meheheheh.
April 30, 2008 9:44 PM | Reply | Permalink
At least it's not going to pay off Mark Penn.
Like yours.
LOL!
April 30, 2008 8:17 PM | Reply | Permalink
The $$$$$ doesn't just go to TV ads, Chicky. It also goes to ground staff -- the kind who out-organized your ass and won Iowa.
April 30, 2008 11:16 PM | Reply | Permalink
Yesterday, Fogu2 was panting after the $30.00 that Hillary claims she will save him on gas taxes.(She won't because what she is proposing has to pass both houses of congress, and be veto proof) but Fogu2 is dumb enough to spend $50.00 to get his very own copy of Vermont Teddy Bears', Tuzla Pander Bear, complete with Kevlar Pantsuit, and a pull string lie generator.
April 30, 2008 7:00 PM | Reply | Permalink
Now that is funny!
April 30, 2008 7:51 PM | Reply | Permalink
This money cannot be used in the general election. That is a separate pot.
April 30, 2008 6:59 PM | Reply | Permalink
That's incorrect. Money raised for the primaries can be used in the general. The conflict goes the other way. Money raised specifically for the general (i.e. money from people who already maxed out for the primary) can't be spent till after the convention. That's where Hillary runs into trouble -- a lot of the money she's raising is from people who are already maxed out, so cant' be spent in the nominating process.
April 30, 2008 8:03 PM | Reply | Permalink
poll results from cbs and nbc ??????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????get your head out of Hillary's....................clouds!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
April 30, 2008 6:59 PM | Reply | Permalink
Well, so much for that Clinton talking point. Clearly though, if he does not win by an 80 pt margin in NC it is proof that he cannot close the deal...
April 30, 2008 7:00 PM | Reply | Permalink
Yes, and he will follow it all up by walking over Lake Superior and healing the sick and it still won't be enough.
April 30, 2008 7:19 PM | Reply | Permalink
Now that is funny!
April 30, 2008 7:51 PM | Reply | Permalink
The whole gas station photo-op is shades of sleepin' Fred Thompson, what with the borrowed vehicle and all.
April 30, 2008 7:05 PM | Reply | Permalink
No indication from the article whether that includes the pro-Hillary 527 in Indiana that just spent $700,000.
April 30, 2008 7:16 PM | Reply | Permalink
LOL
Way to tackle that question Carol. Call names and direct the question back at me.
Just admit it, he is spending boatloads of cash because he knows it is spending boatloads of cash cuz he knows there are many supers waiting to make their decision based on the outcome of the primaries.
April 30, 2008 7:40 PM | Reply | Permalink
Yeah....it's me. Back again to tell you the truth. Like I told you in NH. Again about CA. I told you about TX. Ohio, then I came back to tell you about PA and said 10 points too. Must I return my kool-aid drinking fools to tell you another one????? Obama loses both NC and Indiana. The Bitch is Back.
YOUR WORSE NIGHTMARE>>>>>>THE BITCH IS BACK.
April 30, 2008 8:05 PM | Reply | Permalink
Hmmm. Not even a goat would eat this one.
Meheheheh.
April 30, 2008 9:40 PM | Reply | Permalink
Why aren't we talking about this? It's the same poll.
April 30, 2008 8:16 PM | Reply | Permalink
Well fuck you, bitch - he won Texas.
Say it several times so you don't keep lying about it.
Obama won Texas.
April 30, 2008 8:18 PM | Reply | Permalink
Now that is funny!
April 30, 2008 8:39 PM | Reply | Permalink
And that is lame (three times is really lame).
April 30, 2008 8:57 PM | Reply | Permalink
Good things (and humor) always works in threes. It's in the rule book.
April 30, 2008 11:26 PM | Reply | Permalink
Um, sorry to say Liam is not. Yikes.
April 30, 2008 10:44 PM | Reply | Permalink