Obama has raised more than $5 million in 24 hours

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<p>“BTW, that is probably what Bill is doing: threatening (oops, I mean lobbying) the supers behind the scenes. I doubt he’s eating popcorn and watching TV, unless it’s with a super.”</p>

<p>Ha, now there’s a visual! Dean said that he doesn’t expect to allow that. I wonder what that means for Obama.</p>

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<p>“rules are rules or there would be chaos”</p>

<p>True enough, but if MI and FL hold primaries after Feb. 5, then they are ultimately obeying the rules. The delegates they tried to seat in January still won’t get to vote at the convention. The whole point of breaking the rules was to usurp Iowa/NH/SC as early voices choosing the nominee. As long as that elbowing to the front of the line is prevented, there’s no purpose in shutting those states out. They can go ahead and have the March primary they were always supposed to have.</p>

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<p>Agreed that the above seems like a logical solution. But the money to do another election is probably the issue. I heard that rules for who pays are different depending on whether it is a caucus or a primary, does anyone know?</p>

<p>I think that Hillary might win both those states anyway, but the vote would then be a truer reflection of the voters’ views when choosing between two candidates, especially in Michigan where her name was the only one on the ballot, and to vote for Obama or Edwards you had to vote “undecided”. </p>

<p>Obama has won most of the midwestern states (or all of them so far). Why is Ohio projected to be different? And would Michigan be similar?</p>

<p>P.S. to erewhon, LOL… if it is a female, he is not watching television and eating popcorn…</p>

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<p>momof2inca: “Another great idea from the Obama campaign: If you go to the website you can create your own page/blog and you can raise funds for him, complete with a little “rising thermometer” icon that grows as your collected contributions grow. One young man who heard Obama talk about the woman who sent in $3.01 and a Bible verse was inspired to try to get 10,000 people to match her contribution, thus raising $30,100. Last I heard he was up to about $5,000 before Super Tuesday. … This kind of personal, creative connection to a campaign is really what the net-roots is all about and Obama is way out front on it.”</p>

<p>Every one of these ideas came from the Howard Dean campaign 4 years ago. And Dean used to talk about old ladies handing him change. I read somewhere that 90% of Obama’s donations are under $100 - Dean’s average donation was under $100, too. And he used to raise millions overnight, with bats filling up.</p>

<p>Dean has said that he wants to have a nominee by March or April, and that he will try to persuade the two candidates to work things out by then. Do not assume that this will favor Hillary. The Clintons and Dean represent warring factions in the Democratic party (the old corporatist machine -DLC - vs the “people-powered” movement). The Clintons fought tooth and nail to prevent Dean from becoming DNC chair, and lost. The Clintons hate him. He will be fair and impartial, but I know that in his heart he is rooting for Obama. I believe Obama was supported by Dean’s organization 4 years ago during the Senate primaries.</p>

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<p>Erewhon:</p>

<p>I got my information from a newspaper column, reproduced online, which I now can’t locate. But I also got it from the <a href=“http://www.usnews.com/politics/bulletin[/url]”>www.usnews.com/politics/bulletin</a> website as well (quoted below). </p>

<p>The number of delegates being reported, for both Obama and Clinton, vary depending on whose doing the reporting, guess.</p>

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