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Hillary Raises $15 Million in 15 Days

By Jeralyn, Section Elections 2008
Posted on Tue Feb 19, 2008 at 01:30:37 PM EST
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Howard Wolfson, on a conference call with reporters today, said Hillary Clinton has raised $15 million in the 15 days -- all since SuperTuesday.

Mark Penn said Wisconsin "has always been difficult" for them. On Texas,

Since promising victory in Texas, the Clinton campaign has acknowledged that the way Democrats allocate delegates in Texas poses a challenge. One-third of the delegates comes from a caucus which begins as soon as the primary polls close on March 4th. The other two-thirds of delegates are awarded by state senate district. Predominantly African-American state senate districts in Texas have more delegates than the state's Hispanic districts because African-Americans have turned out in higher numbers in the state's last two general elections.

The campaign also flatly denied earlier reports about an unnamed campaign official who said Hillary would go after Obama's pledged delegates.

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    Hillary Raises $15 Million in 15 Days | 11 comments (11 topical)

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    Disappointing HRC's campaign (none / 0) (#1)
    by oculus on Tue Feb 19, 2008 at 01:35:10 PM EST
    is just now learning/acknowledging how Texas selects its Dem. delegates.  Whose job was it to figure this out and advise her campaign?

    It's possible (none / 0) (#4)
    by A DC Wonk on Tue Feb 19, 2008 at 01:55:23 PM EST
    ... that they just assumed the campaign would be over by now.  Certainly a whole lot of other smart people thought so.  

    That would also explain not doing well and getting out-hustled in caucus states, because perhaps they didn't think they needed to devote grass-roots effort to organize those.  (Similarly with not fielding a full set of delegates in Pennsylvania).

    OTOH, it is always worthwhile to have a plan B (something Bush should have had with Iraq).

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    Plan B, yes. But whoeever devised (none / 0) (#5)
    by oculus on Tue Feb 19, 2008 at 01:59:41 PM EST
    Plan A apparently bought the media hype HRC was the pre-ordained winner.  

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    I doubt any early wargaming (none / 0) (#6)
    by cannondaddy on Tue Feb 19, 2008 at 02:07:34 PM EST
    had them thinking "How do make Wisconsin our Feb. firewall?".

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    Mark Penn (none / 0) (#7)
    by Tano on Tue Feb 19, 2008 at 02:21:02 PM EST


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    Mark Penn (none / 0) (#2)
    by cannondaddy on Tue Feb 19, 2008 at 01:39:46 PM EST
    Lowering expectations and driving the race wedge at the same time.  Now I know why he earns the big bucks.

    I don't think they knew what the were getting into in Texas.

    And I helped! (none / 0) (#3)
    by BluestBlue on Tue Feb 19, 2008 at 01:45:22 PM EST
    Not to late to add to that $15 Million if you haven't helped yet!

    Context (none / 0) (#8)
    by HeadScratcher on Tue Feb 19, 2008 at 03:05:54 PM EST
    $15 million in 15 days is either a lot or a little. How much did Obama raise in this time?

    From what I understand (none / 0) (#9)
    by cannondaddy on Tue Feb 19, 2008 at 03:41:31 PM EST
    Obama has been bringing in about that much, $1 million per day since Dec.

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    Offtopic but of interest to Jeralyn? (none / 0) (#10)
    by jerry on Tue Feb 19, 2008 at 04:07:49 PM EST
    Jeralyn,

    I was wondering what you thought of Harvey Silverglate's take on Obama as the Civil Libertarian President?

    Harvey Silverglate, Obama as the Civil Libertarian President

    Jeffrey Rosen, the talented legal columnist and analyst for The New Republic, just posted an essay online - subscription required; also to appear in a forthcoming issue - in which he posits that Barack Obama, if elected to the presidency, could readily be "the first civil libertarian president." I suppose it depends on how far back one goes to determine who's "first" (Jefferson was very good in theory, but only pretty good in practice). If we examine not only Obama's positions (it's awfully easy to talk a good game, of course), but also his actions over the years, we come away with a sense that mirrors Rosen's conclusions.

    Silverglate then goes on to discuss Obama on taping interrogations as well as Obama on gun rights.

    Along the way he gets in a few kicks at Bill Clinton.

    McCain's Financing Scam (none / 0) (#11)
    by Joike on Tue Feb 19, 2008 at 05:08:05 PM EST
    If someone could post on the complex, but seemingly fraudulent financing manuever the Straight Talkin' Maverick engaged in, I'd be interested in reading more about it.

    I hope the MSM isn't too smitten with McCain to look into this issue.

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