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Hillary's Sisyphus is about to be rolled
Money! Money! Money! Americablog has the news:
To be exact, the Clinton campaign owes debts totaling $10,321,562.87 -- and that doesn't include the $5 million loan she made to the campaign. Mark Penn's firm is owed over $4.5 million.
She was in debt in Feburary and even more so in March. If you don't have enough funds you cannot keep pushing in your uphill battle.
Like a modern day Sisyphus Hillary has been pushing her fundraising rock up the primary hill each day since Super Tuesday in an endless battle to keep her campaign funded but this month that rock may just roll down right over her.
Meanwhile Obama is sitting atop his mountain of cash--$42 million to be exact.
This is what happens when your campaign is overwhelmingly funded by a few wealthy elite who give the max early and then cannot help in the later months of the primary and in your arrogance you surprisingly find yourself running against a candidate like Obama who has united an amazingly broad base of small donors to stand behind him all the way. Those donors will be there in the general as well. McCain? He is at the base of his own fundraising mountain and will have a hard time even climbing up into the foothills.
Comments (1)
Wow, her campaign sounds like the current Bush economy to me.
April 21, 2008 9:06 AM | Reply | Permalink
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