WP: Clinton Camp Feels Spent, and Outspent

[babylonsister]

Clinton Camp Feels Spent, and Outspent

By Matthew Mosk
Washington Post Staff Writer
Friday, April 4, 2008; Page A06


Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton spent a second straight day holding fundraisers in California yesterday as part of an all-out effort to keep pace with the record amounts of money raised by Sen. Barack Obama, whose campaign announced that it pulled in $40 million in March, double Clinton's $20 million take.

While her Democratic presidential rival took the day off in Chicago, Clinton held two fundraisers in Los Angeles and planned to raise money in New Mexico this weekend. She will leave the campaign trail on Wednesday to attend an Elton John concert in New York organized with a goal to raise $2 million.

In an attempt to further tap the online donor market that has largely funded Obama's effort, Clinton plans to launch a new Internet program today that lets supporters choose where their money will go, much as wedding guests select gifts from a registry. Instead of china and crystal, users can purchase campaign signs, van rentals, airtime on radio stations and doorknob advertisements.

Even Clinton's most energetic boosters expressed exhaustion by the call to raise more money. "I'll tell you, after a year of doing this, it's like asking me to run a half-marathon after I've run a marathon," said Mark A. Aronchick, a co-chairman of Clinton's Pennsylvania campaign, who is organizing five fundraisers over the next eight days.

Clinton, too, had a hint of resignation in her answer to reporters asking whether she is now being outspent "two to one" by Obama. "Sometimes three to one, four to one, five to one," she said with a laugh. "I'm getting used to being outspent."

Obama's immense cash flow -- he has raised more than $240 million to Clinton's $175 million -- allows him to compete as aggressively in the final primary contests as he did in the early days of the race. He is vastly outspending Clinton in Pennsylvania, with $3 million in television and radio ads, including a Spanish-language TV ad airing in the Philadelphia area, compared with an estimated $500,000 that Clinton is spending in the state, which will hold its primary on April 22.

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http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/04/03/AR2008040300407.html?hpid=topnews

[saltpoint]

1. Good post for a lot of reasons, not least because it suggests that

money management ran into the ditch correspondent with the HClinton campaign's presumption that the nomination would be in the bag by 10:00 p.m. Eastern Feb. 5th.

No contingency strategy was in place post-Feb. 5th and to match that, no budget considerations either.

But by god Hillary has an insurmountable lead in snow shovels.

[jgraz]

3. And donuts. Don't forget the donuts

[saltpoint]

6. : )

:thumbsup: :hi:

[OhioChick]

2. K&R

:kick:

[formercia]

4. And Bush Gang controlled media is raking it it.

that's what makes this so obscene.

[crispini]

5. Very telling

"Clinton has attended more than a dozen fundraisers since Jan. 1, and her husband, former president Bill Clinton, has appeared at more than 40, while Obama and his wife have attended fewer than 10 during that time."

The internets, they have set Obama free! Yaaaaaaaaaaaaaay!