Hillary campaigners complaining about being outspent are missing the point.......

[scheming daemons]

.... money raised, especially when it has been raised from nearly 1.5 million donors, is a strong sign of popular support.


Hillary's inability to raise money is a sign that the American voting public is rejecting her. People put their money where their mouth is.

The mere fact that Obama can outspend Hillary 3-to-1 shows that he is the stronger candidate.

Because McCain will be taking public financing (since he is having trouble raising money) and he'll only have $86 million.

Obama will have more than triple that in the GE.... and he'll be able to outspend McCain 3-to-1 too.



It's a sign of his strength as a candidate. 1.5 million donors, 80% of which have not tapped out at $2300, is an ATM machine for Obama.

The fact that Hillary doesn't have something similar is a clear sign that Obama is the better candidate for the GE.

If she can't raise the money now, how will she raise it against McCain? Those 1.5 million Obama donors aren't going to be available to her, not after all the crap she's pulled the past two months.

[MannyGoldstein]

1. If The Clintons Had Raised More Than Obama, They'd Be Careful Not

to exploit their advantage - they'd only spend as much as he spent, and save the rest for the GE.

[Liberal Gramma]

4. Are you serious?

"Careful with their money" has not been a hallmark of the Clinton campaign, nor has "refraining from using advantages, fair or unfair."

[Hieronymus]

6. Damn right.

[MannyGoldstein]

7. The Clintons Are Fair To A Fault. And Very Thoughtful Of Others.

Yes, I'm joking.

[Liberal Gramma]

10. Sorry I mis-read your intention

I'm not usually so dense. Blame it on the unbelievable claims seen regularly here on GD:P.

[scheming daemons]

5. Can't do that... money raised for the primary can't be used in the GE, and vice versa...

Everyone is allowed to donate $2300 for the primary, and another $2300 for the GE.


The Hillary donors that are tapped out for the primary at $2300 can still give... but it goes toward Hillary's "GE fund" and cannot be used now.


Lastly..... her donation will be drying up simply because people don't typically bet on 20-to-1 odds much.

[gblady]

11. question....

What happens to Hillary's general fund money when she doesn't win the primary?

[Liberal Gramma]

12. Kerry had money left over and he gave it to other Democratic campaigns

but I wouldn't count on Hillary doing that.

[doublethink]

16. Still think she has a lot of unpaid debt to catch up on .....

so I doubt other Democratic campaigns will see a dime of the Hillary fund either.

[SoCalDem]

20. That's why she's not doing better with the SDs.. She OVER-raised on her re-election

and had a TON of cash on-hand for her current campaign.. Everyone was talking about it.. "Why is she raising SO much money, when her re-election was a shoo-in... she's planning for her presidential run in '08"...

She COULD have used part of it THEN to help some vulnerable dems who needed help, but she hoarded it all for her '08 run...

She's NOT a team-player..and the SDs know it.. that's why only 1/4 of them initially signed her dance card..... as a former first lady, and current senator from NY, one would think that at least 1/2 would have jumped on her bandwagon..

They know her best..and they don't like her either ..

[DerekJ]

15. I read an article before. It said you can transfer money from the primaries to the GE but not vice

versa.

[krkaufman]

21. Ummm... they've already spent more than they've raised ...

... so "careful" doesn't enter into it. And if she had more money, she'd be spending that, too.

[ClassWarrior]

2. They gotta be outraised before they can be outspent.

Puede.

NGU.

[stellanoir]

3. Extreme mismanagement for sure.

How can she run a campaign when she can't even run a campaign well. . .?

[elocs]

8. I am sure if Clinton had the money to outspend Obama, she'd be doing it. n/t

[juno jones]

9. Just gave my first ever monetary political contribution to...

Obama.

I got money riding on Obama.

[doublethink]

13. 5th rec.

and just waiting for some odd spin again from the Hillary supporters to your OP. K&R. Peace.

[TML]

14. Excellent point

We may be seeing the last gasp of the Clinton campaign because the money's running out.

Clinton DUers, quit wasting your money buying each other donor stars. The Borg Queen needs your money!1!! :rofl:

[Arugula Latte]

17. Come on. How many times do we have to explain this?

Only big, maxed-out donors count. Sheesh. :eyes:

[SoCalDem]

18. Maybe they should ask Mrs 109MillionBucks for some of HER money

:rofl:

[rainbow4321]

19. She's only got 24 hours left to put out her FEC li$t

Debts and all....deadline is April 20th. And she will probably take every second of those 24 hours to do so. 11:59 pm Sunday night, perhaps??