<p>$100.00 of that almost 6 million since the polls closed was mine ;).</p>
<p>No one told me about going to a bar :(.</p>
<p>The NY Times article said the Clintons are worth “between 10 and 50 million” and Bill will get tons more from his investment partnership with Ron Burkle. They must have some great conversations about their dalliances since Ron Burkle’s divorce has been the subject of two published family law cases in California in the last couple of years…</p>
<p>^ ^ ^</p>
<p>Didn’t want to be a bad influence on the kids.</p>
<p>It’s now more than $6 million.</p>
<p>patient, I made my first financial contribution of this campaign year earlier today as a part of that now $6.039 million also.</p>
<p>And both of my sons made their first <em>ever</em> political contributions.</p>
<p>I think my contribution just now pushed it over the $6 mill mark. :D</p>
<p>YAY mootmom!!! YAY momof2inca!! Who says Hillary gets all the women?? :D</p>
<p>6.111 million a moment ago, probably 6.12 now. At this rate he can be elected AND retire the deficit.</p>
<p>Wow, the momentum is really in Obama’s favor. I don’t see how Super Tuesday was anything like a toss-up when you look at what really happened. Clinton has raised far less than Obama, has had to lend her own campaign money, has gone from a huge lead/headstart to dead even in the popular vote. And in terms of pledged delegates, Obama’s practically dead even with Hillary. Hillary has the Clinton name, so has the kind of automatic name recognition that Bush Jr. had, and Barack overcame this.</p>
<p>Anyway, if Hillary wins IMO, McCain’s the next president. Her negatives are just too big. Go Barack!</p>
<p>If this election were a carnival ride, it would DEFINITELY be a roller coaster.</p>
<p>If it were a Disney movie, it would have to be one where the evil stepmother targeted the handsome prince instead of the beautiful princess. </p>
<p>If it were a college application process, Barack would be my dream school :)</p>
<p>What is the current Democratic delegate count? I thought Hillary was ahead? And do you really think that Obama’s raising this much money is indicative of him pulling ahead so strongly? I’m so depressed with politics that I am afraid to hope too much for him.</p>
<p>bookiemom, this site suggests that he is a few votes ahead in pledged delegates. She is ahead with superdelegates. The superdelegates are not pledged however. They are still counting votes in several states so the finals are not in from yesterday’s primaries. </p>
<p>Obama should go ahead in the next few weeks with pledged delegates but Ohio and Texas could change the picture again. Hoping he can make inroads in those two states. He is making pitches of course to the superdelegates based upon his claims of electability in the general election.</p>
<p><a href=“http://www.cnn.com/ELECTION/2008/primaries/results/scorecard/[/url]”>http://www.cnn.com/ELECTION/2008/primaries/results/scorecard/</a></p>
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<p>And whether or not O or H actually wins the delegate count, it’s very close. And very close is a loss for the one who’s been losing momentum and who had had a huge lead.</p>
<p>I thought David Gergen’s analysis last night was very insightful, that there were two ostensible front-runners going into Super Tuesday, and neither of them was able to put it away decisively, they couldn’t quite close the deal. While McCain is moving further in the direction of closing, Gergen’s analysis showed that the longer the contest between Clinton and Obama stayed close, the longer voters had to get to know Obama and the more apt they were to investigate, given an upsurge in publicity and popularity, the better it looked for him.</p>
<p>Polls I’ve seen show that Clinton would have a tough contest against McCain, but Obama would defeat McCain cleanly. I know where my hope is going now.</p>
<p>($6.275 million…)</p>
<p>I suspect that Billary will soon be scared enough to pull something dirty and underhanded in order to halt the Obama momentum. But I can tell you that my parents, who were once very much inclined to vote for Hillary, were so offended by the way Bill tried to paint Obama as “the black candidate” in the vein of Jesse and Al, that they have vowed to vote for McCain if it comes down to a Clinton/McCain election. I think that move lost Hillary a lot of black voters. But somehow, I don’t think she’s too concerned about that. Blacks only comprise about 12% of the population. She views the much larger Hispanic and Asian voting block as her potential stalwarts (as indeed they were during Super Tuesday), along with older white democrats and white women. </p>
<p>They must have duct taped and stashed Bill in the closet during yesterday’s vote. He wasn’t even by her side last night when she addressed her supporters at her headquarters.:rolleyes: You think he might now be starting to realize what a potential liability he is to her campaign?</p>
<p>^^^</p>
<p>Time is not on Hillary’s side. Obama isn’t even known by a lot of folks. Clinton has really extensive name recognition. But Obama is coming on quickly. He’s got money and momentum on his side. Hillary, even if she miraculously (IMO) wins the Dem nomination, has a huge headwind pushing against her, limiting her from beating McCain.</p>
<p>Poetsheart: I am pretty much a Clinton admirer down the line, but Bill’s move really, really upset me too. The other thing is it completely eroded all respect I had for Hillary as a female candidate. Whether it was her choice or not, her campaign was leaning on her husband. In a way, I thought it pretty much undid a lot of the independent respect she had garnered when she served in the Senate on her own.</p>
<p>And back for a moment to the tally, it is still climbing and at over 6.4 million. It is the middle of the night so right now it must be the college students chipping in!</p>
<p>My husband and best girlfriend, both lifelong registered Republicans, recently filed to switch party affiliation so they can vote for Obama in the PA Democratic primary. Wait…I think a pig just flew by the window! Honestly, I never thought I’d live to see the day.</p>
<p>Here’s another family that contributed to Obama’s campaign yesterday.</p>
<p>mapesy: Great to hear that! PA may play a pivotal role in the nomination this year. Too bad that your popular governor is for Hillary. I am very worried about the superdelegates. The only way Obama can lock up the nomination is if he really builds up the pledged delegate total in the big late states like PA.</p>
<p>$6.947 million now …</p>
<p>To answer a much earlier post, yes, the money is very important. I agree that advertising is not all that effective, but paid staffers in every state are crucial. One reason that Obama has done so well is that he has a very good organization and they have gotten out the vote. </p>
<p>I’d like to know the average donation for both Hillary and Barack. I would be willing to bet that it is much higher for her. This would imply that many of her donors are maxed out, while Obama’s can keep contributing.</p>
<p>I donated to his campaign a couple of days before the primaries, after seeing Michelle Obama’s Delaware speech online. It’s on youtube in about 7 parts - well worth seeing. I had been planning to vote for Obama, but I was not completely sold on him. I’d contributed to him 4 years ago when he was running against 6 other candidates for the Democratic nomination to the Senate from IL. I was incredibly impressed by what I saw of him then, but I’ve been watching him in the Senate and I lost some enthusiasm for him. </p>
<p>I don’t see now how Hillary can win the nomination. The next few primaries and caucuses are mostly in states where Obama is ahead. For someone who was supposed to be the “inevitable” candidate, to start self-funding and not paying staffers is the kiss of death. Two days ago I would not have believed this. I thought they’d be in a battle all the way to the convention.</p>
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<p>Well, she can win it by accumulating the most delegates. That’s exactly why she’s concentrating on those big states now that have the most delegates, and not the small states that don’t (where Obama currently leads). She is also slated to win more of those “superdelegates” at the Convention. Currently, she has about twice as many who are already committed, than does Obama.</p>
<p>Also, in terms of money-- remember how much money Mitt Romney has put into his compaign; Huckabee, who seems to be running a relative bare bones campaign (w/regard to money) seems to be doing as well as Romney right now.</p>
<p>I’m waffling between voting for Hillary or Obama at this point (my state’s primary isn’t until May), but if you’re an Obama supporter, I sure wouldn’t be counting my chickens just yet. ;)</p>
<p>I have contributed to his campaign, too, the first time I ever contributed to a national campaign.</p>