Hillary's Subdued Fundraising Email
Hillary has routinely sent out rousing fundraising emails just after her electoral victories in order to squeeze excited supporters for yet another round of contributions.
But the fundraising email she sent out tonight after her Indiana "win" -- which is in doubt as we speak -- is revealingly muted, even subdued...
Tonight's victory in Indiana was close, and a margin that narrow means just one thing: every single thing you did to help us win in Indiana helped make the difference.Every call you made, every friend you spoke to about our campaign, every dollar you contributed made tonight's victory possible. And I couldn't be more thankful for your hard work.
Every time we've celebrated a victory, we've celebrated it together. And tonight is no exception. This victory is your victory, this campaign is your campaign, and your support has been the difference between winning and losing.
Thank you so much for making this campaign possible. Let's keep making history together.
Sincerely,
Hillary Rodham Clinton
Late Update: Just in case there's any doubt as to whether this is a fundraising pitch, the email also includes a link to click on that says, "contribute."
Poor Hillary.
May 7, 2008 1:07 AM | Reply | Permalink
From what Keith Olbermann said, it wasn't a fundraising letter - she didn't ask for money.
May 7, 2008 1:07 AM | Reply | Permalink
**Jeeze. It's a letter to Rush Limbaugh.
May 7, 2008 1:28 AM | Reply | Permalink
Keith Olbermann already covered this an hour ago and in all honesty, it's not that different from the PA email, there's just no begging for money.
May 7, 2008 1:08 AM | Reply | Permalink
So Hillary says in an email what she can't say out loud.
Sounds rather like me....passive aggressive.
May 7, 2008 1:08 AM | Reply | Permalink
your support has been the difference between winning and losing.
She's blaming her supporters?
May 7, 2008 1:09 AM | Reply | Permalink
No. She's thanking Rush Limbaugh, Bill O'Reilly, Richard Mellon Scaife, and all her incredibly wealthy donors who paid for that 527 ad blitz.
I mean, she would've lost by eight or nine percent without their collective help, but they put her over the top, didn't they?!
May 7, 2008 1:25 AM | Reply | Permalink
It's All O-VER!
May 7, 2008 1:09 AM | Reply | Permalink
Good news for those Clinton supporters. MSNBC just made the call in her favor.
May 7, 2008 1:10 AM | Reply | Permalink
MSNBC just called Indiana for Clinton.
But it doesn't matter, because...
It's All O-VER!
May 7, 2008 1:11 AM | Reply | Permalink
Oh, joy.
NBC just declared Indiana for Clinton.
it never ends . . .
May 7, 2008 1:11 AM | Reply | Permalink
It's at 22,000 with 98% reporting.
That'll do.
May 7, 2008 1:12 AM | Reply | Permalink
It's all over!!!!
May 7, 2008 1:38 AM | Reply | Permalink
Definitely over. 22K is nothing, when she was supposed to win big.
May 7, 2008 8:23 AM | Reply | Permalink
I have to say one thing about the last couple of weeks and particularly tonight, I no longer believe that the Clinton's marriage is a purely mercenary one. It is likely complicated etc but watching Bill stump all over NC with a kind of desperation and watching him on stage with her tonight - I think they are more normal than I thought, disfunctional but normal.
May 7, 2008 1:12 AM | Reply | Permalink
Excellent, some humanity is coming out of the Obama camp.
May 7, 2008 4:16 AM | Reply | Permalink
There was a fundraising button, not a fundraising letter.
May 7, 2008 1:12 AM | Reply | Permalink
CNN just called it for Hillary. They called it "a squeaker."
Howard Wolfson will call it a "major upset."
It's over.
May 7, 2008 1:15 AM | Reply | Permalink
With just under a 2% win and ~20K more votes than Obama, this is the equivalent of a loss for HRC. Here's hoping she folds her campaign up this week.
May 7, 2008 1:15 AM | Reply | Permalink
I can't believe that I just heard Dan Abrams ask if this win in Indiana is enough for Hillary to press on. The media just doesn't want this to end.
OF COURSE IT'S OVER...there won't be anymore money
May 7, 2008 1:18 AM | Reply | Permalink
Sure there will. Rush, Scaife, and the lobbyists will see to that!
May 7, 2008 1:22 AM | Reply | Permalink
Fox has called it:
May 7, 2008 1:18 AM | Reply | Permalink
Meh, nice to win, but I don't mind throwing them a bone. Rough nite for HRC supporters - dreams and hopes are dashed.
May 7, 2008 1:18 AM | Reply | Permalink
A cute dog throwing someone a bone? Love it!
May 7, 2008 2:24 AM | Reply | Permalink
Just curious:
Has she always signed her name "Hillary Rodham Clinton" in these campaign letters before?
Or is this a subtle switch away from being the other half of Bill and Hillary Clinton?
May 7, 2008 1:53 AM | Reply | Permalink
Nice!
May 7, 2008 1:58 AM | Reply | Permalink
She's backing slowly off the edge. Give her a week. Her speech wasn't quite a concession speech, but it started to make the right noises. This letter is in the same category.
May 7, 2008 6:28 AM | Reply | Permalink
Her speech was filled with "I, I, I" and she asked for money . . . twice. Her campaign is running on fumes after she loaned herself more money. HRC is meeting with her supers tomorrow and has cancelled all other appearences. She is pooched and she kows its.
Look for her to beat the dead horse through June and into the Convention.
May 7, 2008 6:43 AM | Reply | Permalink
well, it looks like Obama is the nominee, and America is going to have a "learning experience" about how affirmative action works. Man oh man, apparently Rice's performance as NSA wasn't enough to drive the point home: promoting black people to positions they can't handle might make you feel good, but it has a fearsome price. Rice, worst NSA in history by commom acclaim. Clarence Thomas, clearly a third rate hack who never should have been appointed to the Supreme Court. Donna Brazille, a nice ornament that cost Gore the election. The list goes on and on....
May 7, 2008 7:14 AM | Reply | Permalink
has anyone ever gotten an email from clinton or obama that didn't have a 'contribute' button?
May 7, 2008 7:38 AM | Reply | Permalink
I guess she wants them, vaunted "middle class, blue-collar workers" to channel all their "gas tax savings" to her campaign while her 109 mil sits cooly in the bank earning 20%.
May 7, 2008 8:32 AM | Reply | Permalink
The last thing we need is to kick her when she's down. I'm for Obama all the way, but it will be much more difficult if we let recent wounds become scars.
DEMOCRATIC PARTY, HEAL THYSELF!
May 7, 2008 8:46 AM | Reply | Permalink
I have no intention of voting for McCain, but neither do I plan to vote for Obama. It might be different if Obama supporters didn't reinforce Donna Brazile's party-shrinking analysis.
Drink deep of the Kool-Aid, lest ye be banished to middle class purgatory!
May 7, 2008 8:48 AM | Reply | Permalink