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I Just Donated!

    Well, congratulations Hillary and Hillary supporters. As for us Obama supporters, she was supposed to win by over 60% to make a dent into his pledged delegate count. It doesn't look like she will. So, congratulations Obama and Obama supporters. I'm impressed at how far he's come in Pennsylvania when he was pretty much running against Hillary, Bill, the media and John McCain. Think about it, he was supposed to be dead after Wright but he's not. We have a phenomenal candidate and I just donated to show him my support.


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I will too. I wasn't planning too but after hearing Clinton saying how they've raised half of a million after they announced she won PA, I've decided to.

I did too! But to Hillary!


"I did too! But to Hillary!"

Good on you for the donation. I'm sure Penn will be happy to get paid.

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And I suspect Penn will get paid BEFORE the pizza parlor in Scranton.

I DONATED...BUT HE STILL HATE ME

Dear Barry,
I figured with $140 million in your checking account you could use something more useful. If you didn't want my Yahtzee dice you could have just given them to Olberman instead of throwing them in my waffle.

Why you hate me?
A. Coulter

I donated all my spare "Change We Can Believe In" to orphaned aardvarks.

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She also called for Obama to drop out. She actually said it. This morning on Scarborough.

That was worth another $25 for me. How dare she. He's NEVER said that, and she didn't even do it through a surrogate. I gave $75 last night.

I'm sure there are a lot of people like us who were watching and waiting or procrastinating (or letting others carry the water as I tell my husband) to donate. Well we just did donate and we've only just begun. You rock Barack Obama supporters. Barack Obama For President 2008

Oh and I'm irritated that Terry McAuliffe said that she's won "the states that matter." Virginia matters! And it might go blue this year if Obama's the nominee.

In a couple of years, James Webb might lose his seat because of Obama.

Virginia is proud to have Jim Webb as our senator and some of us hope he'll be the VP of the US and then president.

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I just donated too. Sweet.

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I just did the same to www.hillaryclinton.com

I hear that Taylor Marsh's blog has a directlink to make that easier on you the next time. Ha...Just kidding.

You can't find anything to echo at Taylor Marsh. Better stay here.

Penn is thankful for your donation.

I just donated to Obama again, as well. Considering how much better he did than predicted (and those predictions hit before "bittergate" and, I think, before the Wright controversy), I'm thrilled that there was just a 10% difference.

On to Indiana and North Carolina--because EVERY state counts!

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I sent $25.00 to my man, Barack Obama!

Dig deep. I just sent $500 more to Hillary.

You just don't get it...

Your antagonism just got O'bama another contribution from me. And it is the smaller, multiple time contributors like DemDave1972, Bserious and myself that have crushed Hillary’s contribution numbers.

Keep up the good work for Obama. We need more comments like yours.

Oh, and I hope Hillary uses your $500 to pay some of the small business owners she’s neglected along the way.

No need to worry your 'pretty' little head about Barack supporters. We have the donation thing down.

Heading over there myself right now.

I'm on my way there too, to make my April donation. I try to give something every month. Tonight is an especially good time to say hey, we got your back!

Ew, I just saw Lanny Davis on CNN a minute ago. I threw up in my mouth a little. Looks like he won't be shutting up for the short term. So anyone out there who is thinking about what to donate please consider the value of shutting that guy up!

Donated to Obama a bit earlier this evening. We've gotta keep the only real chance we have to move our country forward moving forward. Remember, his campaign is our campaign. Its up to us to make it happen.

Tonight was tough to watch, while pundits admitted that Hillary is a fake, reinventing herself in every state, but stating it as a good thing. At the close of Obama's speech, going back to discussing hers. I realize that tonight was her night, but it needs to be America's night. Obama spoke to the nation, for the nation, and that was sadly ignored by the gatekeepers who hold the keys to inform the nation.

So, it is up to us. We need to keep our chins up, look forward to two wins in the next two weeks, remember the overall tally, and remember that YES WE CAN!

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Sent another $50. I hope the primaries are coming to an end soon because I don't want to keep funding a civil war.

May want to move on to a different slot machine - looks like these are all cashed out.

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Another $100 from me, to Obama. I can almost afford it.

Please, supers, settle this soon. For my sake.

I gave my first money (since Kerry) just now... to Barack. 10 bucks. Very tight in the purse right now. Thought I couldn't, but then thought, "Yes I can."

Plus, a small donation like that will keep his per-person average nice and looowwwww.

The choice, for me, is clear. President Barack Obama!

Hey - $10 is $10 and they appreciate your $10 as much as they do my donation that is a little higher.

The small donations are what has been built into a $40 - $50 million lead for him.

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I always donate, if even a little, after every contest and every false scandal. They are small amounts because I am going broke over here, but these post-event donations matter.

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But darling, he's already awash in money, and look what happened anyway. Save your money. Do something nice for yourself.

"What happened anyway" is that he cut her lead in PA by almost half, and he nearly bankrupted her. Not bad. I can't speak for libgirl, but for me, donating to Obama IS doing something for myself.

BTW, Otto, I liked your funny on the other thread (about how someday we will smile again).

Well, the deal is, both campaigns spin the polls. You find an early poll gives your opponent a big lead, then you "close" the gap before the primary. Fact is, she kicked his ass bad last night. 10 pts in a major state where he only won one city with a concentration of black voters is an abysmal showing. Especially after all of your money that he wasted there. The demographics are killing him. He just can't get blue collar workers and old people to buy into his BS. He'll probably be the candidate, having gamed the Dem primary process, but you won't be happy with his showing in the Fall.

In every single primary election, the winning candidate loses the votes that go to the other candidates, but magically gains many more votes in the general than he had in the primary. I wonder how that works. Mystery of mysteries.

Wow. A 9.6 point victory in a state that plays to her dominance of the white 50+ demo and the high school education or less demo and where she had the Gov. and state party apparatus locked up a year ago. The only way that's impressive is if you judge it through the prism of how lousy her campaign has been.

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Spin away, Presumptive Candidate, Party Machine, Spending 3x more than the challenger. That equals win in every election but this one. Obama has no excuse on this one.

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I just donated 100.

Count me in again, too!

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I gave my monthly contribution a few days ago. Looks like I'll have to do it again in May.

Hey, until the exits briefly got my hopes up (I'm an IDIOT!) I'd have been thrilled with a ten point loss here in PA. The demographics were way worse than Ohio - she wins old people and PA has a much higher percentage of old folks than Ohio, for example. The Rendell machine is MUCH stronger than anything she had going in Ohio, and PA was a closed primary. So I figured she'd win by 15-20 here. And seeing how many undecideds there were in the late polling, I figured they'd mostly break her way and she'd win big.

But 10 points is enough to keep her going. The good news is he spent her into the ground in PA and is in a better position for NC and IND as a result. The slime will only get worse in the next couple of weeks, though. If he can win both of the May 6 primaries, I think she's out. If she manages to win IND, though, she stays in until the end of the primaries in June.

He's the nominee, but she's trying to hurt him enough to give herself another shot in 2012. And about half of the party seems to want to let her do it. I'd like to see the super-delegates grow some balls and put her out of our misery, but they won't. Not yet anyway. Maybe in two weeks. Maybe not.

It's not 10 points

it is a single digit "victory" - 9.4

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Another $50 from me....feels great!
Admittedly, it would've been better post-victory.
Then again, less than 10% IS a victory considering the territory.

I'm in as well, third donation in two months. But I wish I could attach a little comment card that I expect the guy to start running a better race. I know how much he closed the gap and how horrible she's become, but with all that advertising money and all those volunteers (from every corner of the country), he's got to close out the game. So, I'm in again, but I'd like the Obama gods to know that my checkbook isn't perpetually open to gaffes, indecisions, and a certain squeemishness about the rough and tumble of political debate.

Which state or states do you think he can win that would close it out?

A victory in Pennsylvania -- or even a 3 pt loss -- would have been good. A convincing election-night win in Texas would have ended this two months ago.

In the future, a double digit win in North Carolina and a clear win in Indiana might do it.

The point is one wants the superdelegates to go to Obama at a moment of great strength rather than as a reminder that he ran well in February.

I agree, but I'd state NC a little differently. NC is his PA. If he can't do double digits there, his base has cracked.

That leaves Indiana as a fair fight. Good luck. Should be an exciting two weeks. I'm in both the Indiana and Chicago TV markets. I imagine the ad campaigns are going to be something to see.

Just an afterthought, but Oregon could be interesting, too. I haven't seen any early polls from there.

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Wait, he is going to close it out by winning again in two traditionally Republican States? Dick Lugar = Indiana, Jesse Helms = Carolina. How in the world can we ever think of doing that?

Billy Glad re Obama in Pennsylvania:

"You find an early poll gives your opponent a big lead, then you "close" the gap before the primary. Fact is, she kicked his ass bad last night. 10 pts"

Billy Gladd re Obama in North Carolina:

"NC is his PA. If he can't do double digits there, his base has cracked."

Great Clintonian logic you've got there!

Clap, clap, point, point.

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Oregon is Obama country judging from the balance of signs, bumper stickers and the general demographic of the state. I would expect at least a 10% win here.

FlyOnTheWall did a post on the demographic fatalism to which we are subject and it has been fairly prescient. I'll have to go back and read it again to see how his predictions stack up to reality.

First damn thing I did this morning - $250.

He's getting another $250 in about two weeks.

That's the way to fight!

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I hesitated in donating, but this farce has to end. Hillary cannot win, and if money is the answer, let's do it. I donated today for the first time to Obama.

My father made his first political contribution in his life (85 years) to BO this a.m. and I made another.

I donated as soon as I saw the Hillary note that she had received 2.5 million in donations since winning PA. Do they not realize that that kind of boast just drives Obama supporters to make sure he stays well ahead?

I hope with everything in my heart that Hillary keeps her promise and stays in this race until Denver. Barack Obama is going to have a war chest so big that he can pay off Hillary's massive debts and travel around on a Green-powered hovercraft by the time this is over. He might be able to balance the budget with campaign contributions alone! Please, Hillary... Sincerely... You're a fighter! You're the scrappy underdog!

Please stay in the race. Keep talking about health care while you have past due notices on your insurance premiums. Please "fire" Mark Penn and then keep paying him millions of dollars for polling that isn't giving you the one metric you really need to understand. Keep begging for $5 or $10 donations when we know you and Bill are blue-collar, working class millionaires! Keep going from state to state, stiffing small business in your wake. Keep providing the contrast between the politics of Rove-lite and the leadership we actually want to see. We need more time to see your true colors so that people don't just wax rhapsodically about how magical the 90s were without ever pausing to remember how Newt Gingrich and company rode into town on Bill's coattails. Keep telling us how fantastic you think John McCain is... Don't stop thinkin' about tomorrow!

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Yep, stay in the race girl.
I just donated to her campaign.

I had donated about $650 up to this point and I thought that would be the end. I watched Hillary this week and I am cancelling my vacation again and sending in $1,000 to OBAMA. I can always take a vacation, but this is about the "Fierce Urgency of Now".

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Put me in for $50 for Senator Obama.

Quite simply, Hillary is shameless, and I spent way to much time and effort in the 90s defending her and her husband from the very kind of attacks she is now launching against Obama.

BTW, and Obama is way too classy to say it, so I will, how can she be trusted to manage the duties of the Presidency when she couldn't manage knowing where Bill was and what he was doing???

See Hillary, THAT's the kind of attacks Obama would be throwing at you if he was LIKE you.

Oh, and I'll throw another $50 if she says anything negative today, so I may as well get the checkbook out now.

Paul, I agree completely. I'm actually ashamed that I defended them with such ferocity - makes me feel like we've all been had.

I threw some money to Obama last night, and I'll throw some more his way if she doesn't denounce that ridiculous NCGOP ad (crickets from her campaign so far even though the GOP and McCain have denounced it). She's a f*cking joke and no Democrat.

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I sent $25.00 in as soon as the Clinton camp started crowing that holding a 9 pt victory when you were up 33 pts 6 weeks ago was a BIG come back!

Gas prices are killing me, and as a teacher...I am having a terrible time making ends meet. I have $75.00 to last the rest of the month... but I found $25.00 for my man Barack. I did this because I believe in him... in his message... in his class... in his vision.

He is a man of great courage and dignity... and he has the best intentions.

I am proud to be a Barack Obama supporter, and even if Hillary steals this nomination (doubtful), I will always be proud that I fought hard for Barack Obama.

He is truly a once in a lifetime candidate.

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...and fyi. My total since January is $375.00.

God Bless Barack Obama.

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a fool and his money are easily parted, someone said that, not sure who

uh, obama spent a kazzillion dollars in penn...how did that work out for him?

so, you are going to keep the obama machine humming, never mind it doesnt seem to make any difference in the vote

sounds like pretty crappy return on investment to me

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Blackflag:

Here's the fundemental problem with Hillary, and she shares this trait with W: She will do ANYTHING to win.

Do I want a fighter? Yes.

But there is something pathological about someone who will do ANYTHING to win. That's not a fighter, and that's not someone in it for us: Its someone in it only for herself.

And how the hell is Obama not electable when he has won more votes and delegates than Clinton? If he is not electable, she is even MORE unelectable, as she has fared poorer than he has.

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Actually you're the one who is so blind that you can;t see the forrest for all the trees.

Barack was never going to win Pennsylavnia. I suppose it's the 15% of uneducated voters who think he is a muslim. Or the 8% of racists who said they would NEVER vote for a black man.

Obama's money on PENN was beautifully spent! HE wanted to bankrupt Hillary, and that's just what he did. He made her burn through money defending a state that she should have had in the bag.

THAT was the mission. Tah Dah! Mission Accomplished. :)

This game is over, and Shrilliary Clintjoke can't win. And she won't win.

You can squeeze your eyes shut as tight as you want. You can stomp your foot as hard as you can. You can repeat over and over "It's not going to happen!", and it is not going to stop the inevitable. Barack Obama is the next Democratic nominee for President and the next POTUS.

Praise God!

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Please note, Obama base is as stron as ever:

92 AA voted for him despite the support of Philadelphia mayor.
60% of the new registered went for BO, so you can expect it to be the same in NC...
So with that advantage and the support of the lawnmakers in NC, he will win...And he is also ahead in Indiana, so he has to run a very good campaign in the next 2 weeks, and his lead in the popular vote will widen...
I have added $ 25 this week, another $ 25 next week, and I will give another $25 to my partner today...

Obama's near complete lock on the Black vote won't win him the general election. He doesn't have and you folks do not have enough money to help him buy the election. 3x funding advantage in PA still left him with a 10% loss. Each time he's tried to buy a state primary he has lost. Why would the general election be different? Besides, he's already promised to use public funding, unless he now goes ahead and adds another lie to his growing list of lies.

Also, at least 25% of Democrats will opt to vote for McCain over Obama.

Matthew
http://www.TheProblemWithObama.com

BTW, I just gave another $100 to Clinton last night. And I encourage everyone to help Clinton out with a few dollars to help save the Democratic party from a loss with Obama.

Matthew
http://www.TheProblemWithObama.com

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Is it just me or is Matthew Weaver's Lobotomy becoming more and more evident every day?


Obama is the next Nemocratic nominee for President and the next President of the United States.

You can squeeze your eyes shut as tight as you want.

You can stomp your foot as loudly as you want.

You can scream over and over "la la la la la Hillary is going to win!'.

And it is just not going to happen.


I firmly believe if Hillary had a post Super Tuesday plan, she might be ahead right now. She didn;t... and she has lost. She has no one to blame but herself.

Barack Obama leads in votes, delegates and states. Game over.

First-time donor (in any capacity) here, too. Just sent $50 to Obama. There's no way she's stealing this. Oh and Clinton-backers, it's heartwarming to see you reach into your pockets to help pay Penn's debts. I know he'll put the money to good use next time he jets to Colombia to negotiate taking away your job.

On to Indiana and NC...

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Matthew:

What does is say about Clintonistas who say by a far larger margin than Obamaniacs that if the other guy wins we will not support the Democratic nominee? They, like Hillary, are all about themselves.

I'm for Obama, and if God forbid somehow Hillary gets the nomination (notwithstanding not having won a majority of elected delegates), should I take my ball and go home? That's what Hillary's support seems inclinded to do. Sad.

One more time, on a basic level: She couldn't manage her husband's whereabouts, how the hell is she going to manage the presidency?

Well, I hope all you Clinton donors feel OK about your money going to pay back the almost $4 million the campaign owe that complete scumbag, Mark Penn.


suckers!

Hey Matt great site for the Obama-haters and apparently the Democratic haters!

I would hope that your opinion regarding the 25% who would not vote for Obama are in reference to the independents and Republicans who crossed over to vote in the nomination process. I would hate to think that long time Democrats truly have a problem with Barack Obama if he is the nominee given their generous support of such notable democrats as Bill Clinton, Al Gore and John Kerry. Barack Obama is a good Democrat, and Hillary has been a fairly good democrat, so I fail to see how anyone who identifies themselves as a democrat then would have a problem pulling the lever in the GE? Maybe you know something I don't but from what I have seen and read on your site, it looks more like a Clinton talking points site, no offence!

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I can't afford to sit back and watch the most divisive politician in America lie her way to the nomination, making a mockery of our political process.

Therefore, I too just donated to Senator Obama.

Hey Indiana, Help Save our Nation!
VOTE HOPE!

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Web will lose his seat when he's vp.

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why is he getting more then 90% of the black vote? strange no!

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Did you complain when Gore and Kerry got 90% of the Black vote?

Did Gov Ed Rendell complasin when he got 90% of the Black vote?

Did you complain When Al Sharpton got > 10% of the African-American vote in New York City?

But, you find it distasteful that Obama gets a high percentage of the African-American vote.

Message received

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Great idea. Donate and volunteer. NC and IN will be payback!

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I just donated too! To Hillary.

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ok people just donate to both ...

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Just donated again to www.hillaryclinton.com

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I just donated to Obama!
I'm usually very frugal, but for Obama I feel proud to spend the money.
:)

Well, you can feel even better knowing that he has an extremely well run campaign and the money is going to good use.

Unlike donations to Clinton's campaign, which stand a chance of going to pay off the $4 million the campaign owes Mark Penn.

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That's what I've been doing... Money's no object when our freedom is at stake.

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