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snark (4.00 / 1)

Can you imagine the snarkiness of some of the Clinton supporters if Obama was 0-11 and pleading for money to just keep up???

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by: Creed Pogue @ Thu Feb 28, 2008 at 16:00:11 PM UTC

worse than 0-11 (4.00 / 1)

Obama hasn't lost a single day

   Each day delegates were won Obama first, followed by Clinton

   1/3 (IA) 16 - 15
   1/8 (NH) 9 - 9
   1/15 (MI) 0 - 0
   1/19 (NV) 13 - 12
   1/26 (SC) 25 - 12
   1/29 (FL) 0 - 0
   2/5 (SuperTuesday) 842 - 828 (11 still to be decided)
   2/9 (LA, NE, WA, VI) 105 - 56
   2/10 (ME) 15 - 9
   2/12 (DA, DC, MD, VA) 111 - 57.5 (6.5 to be decided)
   2/19 (HI,WI) 56 - 38

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by: Juan Melli @ Thu Feb 28, 2008 at 16:03:12 PM UTC

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How much does it cost to open (4.00 / 3)

a storefront office in Omaha, Lincoln, Boise, Topeka, Walla Walla, Fairbanks, Portland, or Waverly?

Not that much.

$100 million gets you alot of three month storefront rentals, phone lines and cafeteria tables.

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by: kid oakland @ Thu Feb 28, 2008 at 16:32:38 PM UTC

I dont think Carol Shea Porter rented (0.00 / 0)

too many offices.

Check out my 3 paragraph primer on Polywell Fusion.

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by: FogerRox @ Thu Feb 28, 2008 at 21:12:33 PM UTC

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Yes, Juan, It Isn't About The Money; Yet it IS About The Money... (4.00 / 1)

Both statements are true.

In the sense that Juan means when he says...

Seriously though, this isn't about a lack of money. Clinton raised over $100 million. This is about mismanaging that money by wasting it on idiots like Mark Penn instead of organizing on the ground, and about outright mocking or diminishing the importance of entire swaths of the country.

That's clearly screamingly true; and no doubt people will write articles and books on the nuts and bolts of how the hubris drenched (and now desperate)  Clinton campaign "blew it".

But on another, deeper, level it is ALL about the money.

I won't "hijack the thread" but simply/briefly point in the general direction of how campaigns are financed.   America's whole "democratic" process is corrupted and perverted by money....lots and lots of money.

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by: Nick Lento @ Thu Feb 28, 2008 at 19:00:34 PM UTC

very true (0.00 / 0)

while 90% of Obama's donors have donated under 1000 dollars 50% of the actual money came from the 10% of big money donors. over 1000 dollars

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by: jerseygirl @ Thu Feb 28, 2008 at 20:01:24 PM UTC

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The problem (4.00 / 3)

is that Clinton planned to have everyone knocked out by Super Tuesday.  So a great deal of the money she raised can't be used in the primaries.  She has tons of money and none at all.

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by: Thurman Hart @ Thu Feb 28, 2008 at 19:46:58 PM UTC

While running a 1990's style campaign (4.00 / 1)

in the Post Dean Scream era, the age of Carol Shea Porter.

Check out my 3 paragraph primer on Polywell Fusion.

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by: FogerRox @ Thu Feb 28, 2008 at 21:11:36 PM UTC

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