We keep hearing how much money Obama's team is spending in PA, but nothing about Hillary's team.

Are people implying that she's spending nothing ON PURPOSE? So if Obama wins or gets within 4 pts - she can claim "Look at all the money he spent and he still didn't win".

Let's get some of HER money facts out there PLEASE!!!

Oh that's just unfair! Obama and his rich supporters!

Damn waste.

Spend it on health care for their people or other benifits.

Eric, perhaps you can update this post with a comparison of monies being spent in PA by Obama backers [SIEU] compared Clinton backers [Emily's List, etc].
Thanks in advance.

Can't blame him for that. Money is effective. Television ads are effective. Swift boat ads in the Fall will be effective.

As Ben Smith noted, Obama's objections to outside spending have dropped while his resources have gone up: "If money can buy an edge in Pennsylvania, he'll have it."

Most of us who also frequent Politico recognize that Smith is at a minimum tilting in Hillary's direction.

With regard to Obama... money may not buy you love, but it can buy a whole lotta votes.

Great!

I hope that with SEIU's help, Obama will win Pennsylvania not only in the upcoming primary but also in the general.

I cannot imagine McCain't mopping the floor.

Obama can and has.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=miUS7WnMgBw

as for Ben Smith's

Obama's objections to outside spending have dropped while his resources have gone up:

*middle finger*

It would be nice if voters did a little research on which candidate to support. Unfortunately that is not the case, so money is the necessary evil needed to bring a least a small portion of a candidates message to the masses.

It is also unfortunate that this money can't be used against the Republicans.

Good for SEIU. And here's the really cool thing -- a major Pennsylvania-based affiliate of SEIU's arch rival, AFSCME, broke with their international union to also endorse Obama. That's the National Union of Hospital and Health Care Employees. Let's hear it for labor solidarity!

Eric's post has a few facts but it appears to me to perpetuate a negative slant on Obama's campaign tactics.

If he works for TPM, does that mean he should try to appear fair and balanced reporting news?

They are just setting the stage. If Obama wins PA, Hillary does not need to drop out because Obama spent more money, so PA becomes "not important".

snap.

Destroying a troll with their own ammunition: Priceless.

Oh great, so a bunch of ignorant janitors who want a few (undeserved) extra bucks are joining the bandwagon. Janitors, gummint employees, high school teachers, housewives, and parlor intellectuals. A powerful, if unappealing coalition. While you come in your pants over Obama, I will note that the nice people in the oil industry deserve much better from you. Obama whinges about the fact that a highly complex and well-run industry makes more than, say, a bunch of socially useless schoolteachers. And yet Exxon and Co. manage the amazing feat of supplying you fools with gaoline every day with 100% reliability. If you only knew how complex this business is.

Eh, I will laugh my ass off, Obama will be a disaster. A nice kid who has never had to work to accomplish anything because people find the idea of a nice spoken, somewhat literate black guy who isn't a thug to be a miracle.

Eh, I prefer knowing what's going on in the world to being a token black president of the US, especially one who will be reviled sometime in his second term when you people actually wake up : )

fogu2 writes:

I'm not partucularly happy with the nonsense that goes on with teacher's unions either. But they are not goldbrickers, they work hard and are underpaid. That is not so with the SEIU and their ilk.

From Wikipedia:

Service Employees International Union (SEIU) is a labor union representing 1.9 million workers in about 100 occupations in the United States and Canada. The main divisions are health care (around 50% of the union's membership), including hospital, home care and nursing home workers, public services (government employees), and property services (including janitors and security officers).

Yea, the SEIU represent the total scum of the earth. What exactly was your point again anyway?

Ok you are not a Republican. Great I'll scratch that from the list. That leaves what now? Oh I see, Clinton apologist.

Where do you stand on Hillary's...
*Bold face lie, and still dong it, about sniping in Bosnia
*Only strategy for winning is through political deals and negative campaigning
*Wants the votes of Michigan and Florida to count even though she has stated that they would not
*Champions the voters right to have their voice heard but then wants to steal the pledge delegates from Obama
*Willing to risk Democrat's presidential chances by forcing a divided convention to satisfy her own political ambition
*Subtly stating that Obama is using the race card while she openly plays the gender card
*Complaint that Obama's part time unpaid adviser made statement mitigating Obama's on NAFTA, while her chief strategist is actively advocating CAFTA while Hillary opposes(maybe?) it

And I could go on, and on, and on... but you get the point.

They are screwing us big time. I would be ashamed to be aligned with them.
Posted by fogu2

So, at least they have that going for them!

I'm going to try this one more time. Sorry if it posts twice eventually, but the first post seems to have disappeared into the black hole.

Here's a link to a NYT article about the relative outside donations for Obama and The Clintons:

http://thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/04/07/obamas-seiu-boost-in-pennsylvania/