So, what is Penn's share?

Another 2.5 million and she could pay Penn or her loan.

Well, good for her. As I have been saying for some weeks now, she is a good, strong candidate. Tonight's fundraising numbers as simply one more datum to support that contention.

Of course, this is precisely why the "he cannot close the deal" line is such patent nonsense. It is not that he is too weak to win; rather it is that she is too strong to lose. They are both strong candidates, which is why neither has quite been able to eliminate the other.

I would ask all Obama supporters to donate tonight. It is time to show her all her negativity is wrong and sad. Did you read the NY Times editorial yet, coming out tomorrow? They supported her, and now they are dismayed at the low road she has taken. I cannot stand her, and I respected her quite a bit two months ago.

Well I just gave Hillary another 50 bucks.
I guess a lot of people had the same idea.
Of course Money can't buy you love, just ask Oilbama. Great Victory tonight. I guess I will go have a cigar and ponder the decision by Puerto Rican Gov. Anibal Acevedo Vila last month to endorse Sen. Barack Obama. Obama-ites were all happy at the time and it certainly seemed like good news for Oilbama as Puerto Rico represents one of the last contests in the primary process, and Acevedo Vila is one of the territory's seven superdelegates. But I will chuckle while smoking
because of the indictment of Acevedo Vila on charges including conspiracy, false statements, wire fraud, federal program fraud and tax crimes.
The guy turns out to be a bigger scumbag than Oilbama's best buddy Rezco.
Hillary will win the popular vote easily as I have said all along, and Puerto Rico will be the key. With neither candidate winning enough delagates the supers will side with the popular vote winner, as they should in a Democracy.
Hillary is the Winner. Loser Oilbama is toast. I know all of Dick Cheney's Oil buddies will be bummed but I am OK with it.

If she is ever to have a hope of persuading these most loyal of Democrats to come back to her side, let alone win over the larger body of voters, she has to call off the dogs.

No chance of that. Sadly, the Clintons are going to wake up with fleas.
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Clinton's Pennsylvania win doesn't begin to explain the $2.5 million her campaign has (allegedly) raised.

No, it was her boast to toast Iran. To incinerate every living thing that flies, walks, or crawls in that country, in the event their political leadership dare defy We The People. Especially the children. Nits into lice, and all that.

After all, who do those people think they are? God?

I donated a gigantic dump in her honor about 10 minutes ago. FLUSH!

Will somebody please wake up Al Gore and get him into the race?

She entered April $10M in the hole.

Obama forced her to probably spend another $15M.

I think she's now $15-20M in the hole.

I'd like to know how much of this "$2.5M is for the Primary and what is for the GE."

which means Obama must have raised 5 or 10

Off topic, but think for a sec that over 200000 Republicans took the time to go the polls and vote against McCain. I know those folks aren't going to vote for either Hillary or Obama, but I bet a good sized chunk of them sits out the GE.

I just took a look at my finances yesterday, I'll donate $80 tomorrow. Why $80? Because I already donated about $110.09 and you don't need to send information for donors under $200.

Thanks for the post. It's important to support causes I believe in. I will donate to Obama immediately.

Jbentley4:
I had to go create a profile for the express purpose of telling you how good your comment was. You've just expressed, in a nutshell, the essence of the media's treatment of Obama. I hope once he's president they start following his example and get a little more sensible.

I just contributed to Clinton for the first time.

Bottom line is Obama has more money than he can effectively spend. He's peaked. He's overexposed. He cannot buy this nomination. His numbers will go down from here on out.

Clinton has plenty of headroom to increase her support. She has not peaked and is showing momentum. She needs the cash to achieve effective promotion. Her numbers will go up from here on out.

As we round the last turn Obama the Gelding is showing that he used everything he's got and cannot shake Clinton. She show signs of second wind and is about to overtake Obama the Gelding at the finish.

Clinton must be the nominee for the sake of the party and the nation.

Too bad her campaign couldn't win by 10% tonight though... only 8.6%, which Josh referred to as the "dividing line" on expectations.

http://www.electionreturns.state.pa.us/

The media is having a serious problem with rounding up / down with the numbers tonight.

As for Obama campaign expectations, it's worth pointing out that they predicted a loss in Pennsylvania a long time ago, and their loss tonight was only moderately higher than they predicted.

http://www.ilikesalt.com/files/obamacampaignexcel.xls

The Popular Vote totals counting all voters who voted, FLA and MICH.
Clinton -15,013,813
Obama -14,900,543

It is time for Obama to concede.
Why is he staying in the race? He has no chance of winning enough delagates for the 2025 needed to clinch and he is hurting Hillary's chances against McCain the longer he stays in this.
His incessant whining along with his whiny supporters is pathetic.

not even a little squirt : (

annnddd she is still in the hole

if that isn't just total propaganda to try to build confidence in supporters

Look. This isn’t the Rumble in the Jungle. It’s not World War II. It’s not even Tom & Jerry. It’s more like Wrestlemania. A little bit of fireworks and a laser display. But it is really just make-believe. A show. A show that happens every few years. Lots of noise and lots of action. But fundamentally still just a show. Nobody gets hurt. Yes, I am talking about the US Presidential election. http://angryafrican.net/2008/04/22/storm-in-a-teacup/

I am enormously frustrated!

I want to believe in the party strategy to bring this race to all the states and pull more voters into the Democratic Party. This would be great for the nominee in the general.

But,
this contest is doing as much damage to the party as it is doing good. The PARTY is responsible for collating members around the nominee, and that nominee was decided more than a month ago. Instead, they have adopted a strategy that is splitting the party.

What Hillary is doing is bizarre - on the one hand she is doing Obama a favor by putting these crazy issues out there before the general, but I can't help see her gaming this strategy to no positive end for the Democrats. BIZARRE. Now, she has partnered with scaife, the very same opinion-maker who hounded her and Bill in the 90's with scum, to scum Obama. To what positive end?

I have to say that I love the absolute hypocrisy of Clinton supporters, who are now calling for Obama to concede even though he is still way ahead in delegate count and popular vote (as if popular vote means anything, anyway). There are a number of primaries left; namely,

May 3: Guam
May 6: Indiana and North Carolina
May 13: West Virginia
May 20: Kentucky and Oregon
June 1: Puerto Rico
June 3: Montana and South Dakota

Aren't you concerned about every voter having his or her say anymore, the way you were before Pennsylvania? Now that she's pulled Pennsylvania out with an 8.5% victory (and will net probably between 8 and 10 delegates), you suddenly want to shut this thing down and disenfranchise the people in the remaining 9 primaries? Do you even read what you write? Hillary supporters have no credibility because they have no consistency - their whines and complaints change daily (sometimes hourly) without any thought to how ridiculous they sound. If it wasn't so sad it would be truly comical.

Donating to Clinton is like throwing money out the window. Do these donors read the numbers?; it's impossible for her to win this nomination.

Hmm, I was playing with the Slate delegate calculator and it said that even if he won NC by 10 (half of what he's polling at right now), he'd net 11 delegates over her (23 delegates if he wins by 20). So this "dent" in his lead could get popped back pretty quick. To say nothing of the superdelegate endorsements he was promising between then and now.

Clinton supporters apparently really want to pay off Mark Penn's bar tab.

And for those who whine about Obama outspending Clinton in Pennsylvania, it was great strategy. He knew he wasn't likely to win, but he went into the month flush with cash, and she was in the red. He forced her to spend a lot of money she didn't have. He's thinking about the long game, while she's scrambling.

Obama makes good use of my money. I gave a little last week and will probably give again next week. My boyfriend gave Obama another $100 after the speech last night.

A fool and his money are soon parted.

Who would pay to support this dying campaign?

Face it, a win for her is IMPOSSIBLE, period: