<p>"The campaign announced today that it raised more than four million dollars online in the 24 hours after polls closed on Tuesday the biggest single haul in one day ever for the campaign. </p>
<p>That outpouring is the reason that a handful of senior staff who had offered to go without pay on Wednesday have been told today that they will not need to skip paychecks. </p>
<p>One longtime Democratic consultant not affiliated with any campaign wondered if perhaps the whole thing wasn’t a big stunt to garner media attention and look like an “underdog.” </p>
<p>‘I’d take this revelation as a sign that they planned this whole thing,’ the consultant said."</p>
<p>A big stunt from the Clintons? Please say it ain’t so! Mercifully, the campaign raised the money to feed the staff and we were spared more crocodile tears. :D</p>
<p>It wasn’t a stunt. It was just some opportune timing. After Super Tuesday wins, the campaign didn’t have much money, and with Obama’s fundraising being reported so widely, it DID make Clinton look like the underdog.</p>
<p>A stunt implies that her need for money was a lie. That would be false.</p>
<p>Romney spent his own $40 million. But Hillary only loans her campaign money. She expects her $5 million to be repaid by others. The Clintons do not use their own money for anything. Remember Hillary’s million dollar book deal came a day before she was bound by Senate ethics rules? Hopefully, all the money liberals have will be soon sucked out of the world during the primaries. But if the Clintons get really desperate they will do what they always do: break the rules. They’ll be getting unsavory foreign contributions of dubious legality and won’t be reporting it. There will be 527 and Union advertisements pushing Hillary. A year later there will be some sort of scandal(s), and if Hillary is in power it will be covered up and in any case will be reported too late for anything to be done about it. That’s their pattern, their modis operandi. It should come as no surprise, so no one has an excuse to say they expected anything better.</p>
<p>mrego - good point about the loan. The Clintons have gobs of money thanks to their shady dealings. They are asking people with less resources to pony up but never see any of it again while Hillary will get hers back with interest.</p>
<p>The Clintons can also raid their own private bank…the Little Rock Fort Knox aka Clinton Library Foundation. They’ve steadfastly refused to divulge the amount of donations collected so far.</p>
<p>“Nearly one in five big-money contributors to Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton’s 2008 presidential campaign, known as “HillRaisers,” are the same donors who surfaced in a 1996 White House scandal involving sleepovers in the Lincoln Bedroom and other perks to help re-elect President Clinton.”</p>