Obama spent $1.3 million in Florida

[Clinton Crusader]

Barack Obama spent a ton of cash in Florida, so could we please stop
with the myth that Obama did not try hard to win Florida's delegates?

Although the Democrats weren't able to earn delegates in Michigan or Florida, because the states scheduled early primaries without the national party's blessing, the hopefuls still spent nearly $3.4 million in those states. Hillary Clinton and Obama each spent about $130,000 in Michigan while Obama spent $1.3 million in Florida - MORE THAN ANY OTHER Democratic candidate and more than eight Republican candidates, who were eligible to win delegates from the state.
http://www.mydd.com/story/2008/2/18/101423/027 and
http://www.capitaleye.org/inside.asp?ID=335

Hillary won in Florida, fair and square, and those delegates ought to be
seated at the Democratic national convention. Of course, the Obama supporters will continue to fantasize that Obama did not try to win Florida and claim, therefore, that the votes of the 1.7 million Floridians should not be counted. As of February 16, 2008 - 391,992 MORE Democrats, nationally, voted for Clinton than Obama.

*Count WHOSE Vote?*
by Paul Lukasiak - TaylorMarsh.com
Feb. 17, 2008

Based on exit polls, among the approximately 16.3 million people who
identified themselves as Democrats, over 678,000 more voted for Hillary
Clinton than Barack Obama. If we're going to "let the people decide" who the Democratic nominee would be, shouldn't we be basing that on the will of Democrats themselves?

The latest meme from the Barack Obama camp (and one that is being heavily
promoted by the media), is that super-delegates should comply with "the will of the people" as reflected in the popular vote count. But this was hardly even mentioned until the week after Super Tuesday, when Obama took the lead in total votes cast in the primaries.

In fact, on Super Tuesday, 295,952 more primary voters cast their ballots for Hillary Clinton than for Obama, yet somehow neither the Obama campaign, nor the media, was paying much attention to Clinton's lead in the popular vote. If we include all the states that held primaries before Super Tuesday (NH, SC, MI, FL) Clinton was UP by 468,024 votes - that was 2.51% of the total votes cast. But talking about that number was not a media priority either.

[grantcart]

1. 5th time somebody has started a thread with the exact same title keep trying

[MediaBabe]

5. I've been here all day and this is the first time I've seen it posted

[Mojorabbit]

2. This was debunked this morning. n/t

[madrchsod]

4. i said another post by 12...i was off an hour and half

[MediaBabe]

6. I haven't seen it debunked.

[grantcart]

8. Spending money in a state has no connection with campaigning.

What did they spend it on? Buy software? Have printing done for material that was distributed in other states?

How about they hired someone there to make their TV commercials or perhaps the made a hired a polling unit in Florida to do their polls in the East Coast.

Spending money in a state is not campaigning.

Everyone has been watching like a hawk and the Clinton campaign would have jumped over buildings if they had found a mailer or anyother evidence to support the contention that actual campaigning was done as then they would be in a position to argue for the inclusion of FL delegates.

It is now debunked again.

[emilyg]

7. Did not see it.

[Qutzupalotl]

3. Happy primary day!