70 top Clinton donors write their first checks to Obama

[ProSense]

70 top Clinton donors write their first checks to Obama

by First Amendment
Sat Apr 26, 2008 at 06:37:40 AM PDT

While reading the WAPO article below, I picked up this little gem.

Woah! 70 of her top donors defected in March. This is another reason why Hillary is $15M in the hole.

Nice WAPO graph below showing the closing gap of Super's since December 2007.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/04/25/AR2008042503707.html?hpid=topnews

"Pennsylvania did the job of calming any nerves that existed," said Clinton campaign spokesman Jay Carson. "It showed that the big states around the country think she's the best person to be president."

But that opinion is far from unanimous. More than 70 top Clinton donors wrote their first checks to Obama in March, campaign records show. Clinton's lead among superdelegates, a collection of almost 800 party leaders and elected officials, has slipped from 106 in December to 23 now, according to an Associated Press tally.

"If you have any, any kind of loyalty to the Democratic Party, perhaps you need to rethink your strategy and bow out gracefully in order to save this party from a disastrous end in November," Rep. William Lacy Clay (Mo.), an African American Obama supporter, said in an appeal to Clinton.

There are signs that the anger voiced by some African Americans is beginning to extend to the Democratic donor base. Campaign finance records released this week show that a growing number of Clinton's early supporters migrated to Obama in March, after he achieved 11 straight victories. Of those who had previously made maximum contributions to Clinton, 73 wrote their first checks to Obama in March. The reverse was not true: Of those who had made large contributions to Obama last year, none wrote checks to Clinton in March.

"I think she is destroying the Democratic Party," said New York lawyer Daniel Berger, who had backed Clinton with the maximum allowable donation of $2,300. "That there's no way for her to win this election except by destroying (Obama), I just don't like it. So in my own little way, I'm trying to send her a message."

The message came in the form of a $2,300 contribution to Obama.

Donors are not the only ones who have made the leap. Gabriel Guerra-Mondragón served as an ambassador to Chile during Bill Clinton's presidency, considered himself a close friend of Sen. Clinton, and became a "Hill-raiser" by bringing in about $500,000 for her presidential bid.

<...>

more

BIG HRC FUNDRAISER DEFECTS TO OBAMA

[Saturday]

1. Old news. nt

[dailykoff]

2. It will be

tomorrow.

[FrenchieCat]

3. I just found out about this old news!

Glad it was there........

[Window]

7. First I'm hearing of it and it's good news to me.

[Tarheel_Dem]

13. Can you point us to a link/source for this "old" news?

I never heard it before. Thanks.......

[Rosa Luxemburg]

4. 70 no less! and there will be more!

[patrice]

5. True Story:I know someone who has been saying, "Don't vote. You're enabling a bad system.

Turn your back on it and let it crash and burn. Then we can start all over with something new." She and her husband are wealthy, so she can afford such risky ideas and She's been talking this way for a couple of years.

She called me right after the PA vote and said she'd just given Obama a healthy donation and she wanted to know how to volunteer for his campaign.

[TexasObserver]

6. The smart money has already abandoned Hillary.

I think her campaign is lying about the alleged ten mil they supposedly raised after Pa.

[ProSense]

9. It's possible that Hillary would lose all her backers and superdelegates

and still not concede. There is an air of delusion about her campaign.

[Johnny__Motown]

8. This looks like "The Establishment" accepting Obama as the nominee (to me)

[ShortnFiery]

10. Excellent News! eom

[ProSense]

14. Not for Hillary. n/t

[Major Hogwash]

11. No more money means no more campaign. End of the road for Team Hillary.

Now Bubba can go back and give speeches about how he is curing cancer and hams at the same barbeque, while finding all of the computer programming errors they missed in the beta version of the SP1 package for Vista, while he puts the finishing touches on his unifying equation of physics and subatomic particles, so that we may have cars that run on fart gas by 2012.

[chill_wind]

12. TOP donors. And I bet some of them wish they had their previous money back. K&R n/t

[bvar22]

15. Most Pledged Delegates

*Most Money

*Most popular votes

*Most States

Obama's got IT going on!

[ProSense]

16. Obama picks up Arizona superdelegate

Obama Release on Arizona Superdelegate Endorsement

[grantcart]

17. SD Union Tribune version of this story also noted that not a single

Obama financial supporter had switched for Clinton

[kwenu]

18. Sad to see that Hillary is going to embarrass herself to the end.

[L0oniX]

19. Here lies Hillary Clinton. She disruped poorly.

:evilgrin:

[Scurrilous]

20. K & R

:thumbsup:

[ProSense]

21. Obama picks up another superdelegate: Senator Bingaman

New Mexico Senator and superdelegate plans to throw his support behind the Land of Lincolner.