Clinton raising $10 million since victory

[BeatleBoot]

Source: Reuters



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Clinton raising $10 million since victory, campaign says

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton, who has trailed rival Barack Obama in fundraising, is set to bring in some $10 million (5.05 million pounds) in the 24 hours since she won Pennsylvania's primary election, her campaign said on Wednesday.

"Senator Clinton's game-changing victory last night has turned the tide and resulted in an historic outpouring of grass-roots support," campaign Chairman Terry McAuliffe said in a statement.

He said 60,000 donors had contributed by midday on Wednesday, of which 50,000 were new givers.

Clinton, a New York senator, raised $20.9 million in March compared to $42.8 million raised by Obama, a senator from Illinois.

Clinton beat Obama in Pennsylvania on Tuesday, but he leads nationally in the race for the Democratic presidential nomination.

[GarbagemanLB]

1. So she's at 0 now?

[Rosa Luxemburg]

7. S-0 = debt

not going to pull the wool over our eyes. baby

[Yes We Did]

16. DING DING DING DING DING!

[SemiCharmedQuark]

22. "set to bring in" does not mean she's done it.

If she has, good on her. But that is not what the actual quote says.

[TahitiNut]

39. Exactly. $10M and snipers. She lies. As Cuba Gooding said "Show me the money!"

I can hear her creditors saying the same thing. :shrug:

[PetraPooh]

51. I'll even accept "show me the paid vendors!"

[BayouBengal07]

2. What do they do with money when a campaign is over?

Shit, I should run for President, I want $10 million in one night...

[MadMaddie]

3. Yawn...it doesn't matter how much she raises if she continues

to inappropriatly spend the money.

[tularetom]

4. That's her story

If she said the sky was blue, I'd have to go outside to check.

[IndependentDem]

5. what should she do with the money?

Do you think she should pay off her outstanding debts, or do you think it is ok that she uses the money for the next primaries?

[NeedleCast]

21. I know WHAT she's going to do with it

and it's not going to be pay off debt.

[IndependentDem]

33. that would be very sad...

I don't see how people could still support her if she does not FIRST pay the people she owes millions and millions of dollars.

[Joe the Revelator]

6. This is all according to Terry McAulliffe, a man who we know never spins

it must be the truth@@@!!

[NanceGreggs]

12. Yeah, the same guy who ...

... in the last 48 hours, has declared that Hillary is ahead in the popular vote (of course he counts MI and FL), won in MI (where Obama wasn't on the ticket), and the "fact" that Obama took his name off the MI ballot not because it was agreed that MI wouldn't count, but because he knew he was going to be trounced by Hillary.

Jesus H. Christ, what a tool.

[Andy823]

26. He may not spin

But he sure as hell lies! :crazy:

I heard now they are claiming the "expect" to make that much in the coming days, but he already got out the lie, so that's all that counts!

[GarbagemanLB]

8. Terry has also been saying Hillary leads in the popular vote now. LOL. Keep spinning, Terry!

[wileedog]

9. I'll be very curious to she how much she spends in NC and IN

with all her newfound riches

[olkaz]

10. Yeah, it's about time they fessed up on this thing.

They didn't raise nearly that much. Period.

It's all an attempt to convince Hillary supporters that EVERYBODY is donating, so they better not be left out.

[Auntie Bush]

37. Got a link for that?

What makes you so all knowing?

[olkaz]

43. Uh, questioning a ludicrous claim doesn't mean I have to prove something.

Ugh.

I have a ladder that goes to the moon and I go up there, put a bunch of cheese in my backpack, come back down, and eat it throughout the week. Prove that I don't! Got a link that says that I don't?

[Auntie Bush]

50. You're the one who made an accusation that Hillary's campaign was lying.

I say you accuse someone...back it up with facts. That's what I get asked repeatedly by your people. So according to your standards...I can say your post was just a vicious lie! Fair is fair! How ya like it?

[jordi_fanclub]

11. BUSTED: Too much bullsh*t...

10 - 3 = 7 millions in "seconds"?!?! :tinfoilhat:

Compare the time with this: http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5hAajUl0o0RggXaO260rNXBIm5B9QD907SFV80

[BlooInBloo]

20. Clinton supporters have been lying about this literally all day long.

[Yael]

13. Bookmarked!

I know she won't be in the race on May 20th, but I will enjoy the schaenfreude regardless.

[cliffordu]

14. Oh, I donno.....

[scheming daemons]

15. That'll last her a week.... then what?

[dailykoff]

17. "Raising" = not news. A goal is not a fact.

But tThanks for the spin.

[SemiCharmedQuark]

18. "is set to bring in some $10 million"

Set to bring in?

[DevonRex]

19. Right. And she was also under sniper fire. LOL at Hillary. nt

[JimGinPA]

23. I Detect...

[SemiCharmedQuark]

25. It's not a lie, it's a goal spun to sound like a fact.

She might meet that goal, but not as of the writing of this article.

[ProSense]

24. Questioning Hillary's numbers

Questioning Hillary's numbers

Covering online fundraising is tricky. Reporters conventionally take campaigns' claims on faith; small-dollar contributions, then, are not required to be itemized, so they're hard to check. But with so little information, it's also hard to call numbers into question.

But Micah Sifry, of TechPresident, a fair-minded guy without a dog in the fight, doesn't buy some of Clinton's claims:

An email from Terry McAuliffe, Clinton campaign chairman, that I received three hours ago, says "More than 50,000 people have contributed to the campaign for the very first time in the last 24 hours alone." If 80% of Clinton's donations are from new givers, that implies a total number of about 60,000 donations. If we're very generous and assume an average donation of $100, which is high for first-time donors, that gives Clinton a current take of at most $6 million.

His logic makes sense to me. One way campaigns sometimes spin this: They steer large donors to the website, then count them as online donors. Still.

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Does anyone find it strange that Hillary raised only $8 million for the primary in March, and suddenly raises more than that in a day?

[HooptieWagon]

27. Mark Penn thanks you.

It's getting hard to make ends meet after getting fired by the Colombians.

[anigbrowl]

28. Well, get back to us when she's actually done it

She was supposed to have this all wrapped up by Super Tuesday as well.

[C_U_L8R]

29. The Bellagio Hotel thanks you for settling Senator Clinton's bill

Crown Royal in the mini bar.... num num num

[bobbert]

30. I'm set up to bring in $10 million too! Where's my news story?

For some reason nobody's going to my website so I'm at zero :(

Hillary probably has at least $100,000 so I'm getting beat.

[pdxmom]

31. Here's that stupid math thing again:

"As I suspected, the "Hillary raised $10 million online overnight" report that the Washington Post ran with earlier today was too good to be true. I don't know if the mistake is the reporter's or if someone at Camp Hillary was spinning a bit too fast, but there's no way they raised that much since her win in Pennsylvania yesterday.

An email from Terry McAuliffe, Clinton campaign chairman, that I received three hours ago, says "More than 50,000 people have contributed to the campaign for the very first time in the last 24 hours alone." If 80% of Clinton's donations are from new givers, that implies a total number of about 60,000 donations. If we're very generous and assume an average donation of $100, which is high for first-time donors, that gives Clinton a current take of at most $6 million."

http://www.techpresident.com/blog/entry/24473/show_us_some_real_money_hillary

And I want some reporter to ask the question - of any money that was raised, how much of it was primary money and how much is GE money?

[BeatleBoot]

32. Aahh! The Echo Chamber is Alive and Well!!!

Funny Stuff!

[bhikkhu]

34. Basically, either an exageration or a lie or a misstatement

Depending on how you look at these things. They said they had raised 10 million, which created a lot of excitement. Then is was "projected to raise 10 million", then it was 3.5 million, and the last I heard 2.9 million.

Kind of non-news...

[ej510]

36. 1480 kphx reported 2.9 million.

[anonymous171]

35. Obviously trying to deflect attention from her debts.

[Bigleaf]

38. Bullshit! 10:00 am Clinton says they raised 3 mil, 3 hrs later McAuliffe says they raised 10 mil.

Someone is lying.

[burythehatchet]

40. MAN that picture is perfect. It's like she's got the 10 mil in her purse

and she's telling her subjects, "see ya"

[Poll_Blind]

41. I'm pretty sure an Iranian sniper team is going to steal, like 7 mil. of that by tomorrow's papers.

PB

[quakerboy]

42. So she can pay Mr Penn for almost 2 more months.

Good job. In the mean time, are our downticket candidates being funded?

[nichomachus]

44. I'm "set to bring in " $10 million this year also

I've only got $9,988,000 to go. Wish me luck.

[Lerkfish]

45. "set to bring in" is from the clinton campaign press release.

as such, it should not be recorded as a fact.

[formercia]

46. One or two delegates is not a victory

more spin.

[uponit7771]

47. "set to bring in" doesn't = having the 10 million dollars

[AllexxisF1]

48. Exactly.

How in the world is this type of behavior even remotely Presidential material.


She lies, she lies, she lies.

[book_worm]

49. "game changing" that's a laugh she netted ten more delegates from PA than Obama

he netted more out of Kansas than she did out of PA.