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Did Hillary Actually Raise 10m in one Day?

By Randall P Rourke - May 18, 2008, 9:54PM

If I recall correctly on May 15, reports to the FEC were required that would allow the public to determine if the HRC campaign atcually raised 10,000,000 in a single day. Granted the media is sexist and biased and think Hillary should be killed.

However I do wonder if the 10,000,000 claim is factually correct, especially since she seems bankcrupt. It would be nice to see a legitimate answer, I suppose that since the MSM already realizes HRC is done and gone, they are allowing her a pass on this one, but perhaps we need to look into the allegations made by HRC that 10,000,000 was rasied in a day are in fact true? Afterall if she plans on dragging this out her financial viabilty is a factor?

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This will be reported on the 20th. I believe it was overstated, otherwise they would have released the numbers by now. I believe they have to release by midnight at the latest...

They won't release it until the last minute because I suspect that the reality will impact the voters in Kentucky...

Posted by psmdsfc
May 18, 2008 10:10 PM | Reply | Permalink

So let's summarize your post:

Hillary is lying about her campaign finances.

Hillary exaggerates the media bias against her.

Hillary is bankrupt.

Hillary is done and gone.

Hillary is getting a pass from the media.

I think that sums up your complaints about Hillary in your post. Now if I displayed that much anger at Obama you would call me a sore loser. So I guess this makes you a sore winner.

Oh, I get it. Hillary is going to win big in Kentucky on Tuesday, and probably by a much higher margin than the one by which Obama will win in Oregon, hence your "dragging this out" comment. So therefore it's time for us to revert to anger and Hillary bashing. Understood. May I suggest a tried and true line of attack? Say that she's only winning Kentucky because they are all racists. We got a lot of that after W. Virginia. Or you could say that it's all small town people who cling to faith and guns and fear of immigrants out of bitterness. That's always a good one.

Posted by Otto F
May 18, 2008 10:15 PM | Reply | Permalink

So lets summarize you response OttoF:

Because you agree with virtually everything I said, despite the fact that PSMDFC corrected me on the reporting date. I can't say why people in KY will vote for Hillary, it's their choice and right to vote too, Of course I can't say why O'Bama is oging to win Oregon either. In the end Hillary might gain 15 or so pledged delegates and in response O'Bama will just roll out more sUperdelegates. Hillary wins WV and Obama nabs NARAL, Edwards, +9 SD, and it gets better for Hillary. The KY win might get us a Gore for Hillary? Her new campaign manage is Lou Zurr and her song is "Dream On"

P.S. If you are a serious FletwoodMac fan then you know who Peter Green is: Google the lyrics to the song "merry go round" and think about Monica.

Posted by RandyRP
May 18, 2008 11:39 PM | Reply | Permalink

Otto, this is just for you...
Hillary's "Just another good old girl" West Virginia strategy has become her Kentucky strategy..

http://bp3.blogger.com/_5BH6-f-ymHI/SDGjLAlAIwI/AAAAAAAAAUk/6dk1Vtl4mUI/s1600-h/Hillary%27s+West+Virginia+Strategy.jpg

Seems to have worked in Appalachia, unfortuantely the fuyrther west or east you go, the less likely it is they will fall for the dropped g's, the whikey-swilling and the "you'n me" posing...

But she's got a lot of support out there in the green mountains, must be those very Hillfolks that ponied up the 10mil.

OJK, I'll stop... if Otto does.

Posted by JEP07
May 19, 2008 12:13 PM | Reply | Permalink

Actually, I think it's because the typical voter in KY is far less educated than the typical voter in OR.

Plus the fact that her opponent is a black man.

Fortunately, in a couple weeks, we can put Ms. Clinton and her sleazy cadre behind us and Move On.

Posted by GayIthacan
May 18, 2008 10:55 PM | Reply | Permalink

Can the smarmy culture warfare and stereotyping of states, please.
Barack Obama, Democratic Convention, 2004:

Well, I say to them tonight, there's not a liberal America and a conservative America — there's the United States of America. There's not a black America and white America and Latino America and Asian America; there's the United States of America. The pundits like to slice-and-dice our country into Red States and Blue States; Red States for Republicans, Blue States for Democrats. But I've got news for them, too. We worship an awesome God in the Blue States, and we don't like federal agents poking around our libraries in the Red States. We coach Little League in the Blue States and have gay friends in the Red States. There are patriots who opposed the war in Iraq and patriots who supported it. We are one people, all of us pledging allegiance to the stars and stripes, all of us defending the United States of America.

Can your other crap, too while you're at it
Barack Obama, Portland, Oregon, May 17, 2008:

That means all of you have to be nice to Clinton supporters.

Posted by Lamont
May 19, 2008 12:48 AM | Reply | Permalink

We will see, the latest and greatest regradging her viability soon enough, time to lay it bear. I think she was lying then about the 10M and believe the facts if investigated will bear me out. Why after a single night 10M windfall, followed by 4M expense, plus a 6.4M loan do you still wind up -20M. It just does not add up.

Posted by RandyRP
May 19, 2008 1:17 AM | Reply | Permalink

Don't take this the wrong way, as personally I don't see anything wrong with an interest in this being journalistically investigated,

but are you aware that this type of thing would be sort of at cross-interest to what the Obama campaign wants to do?

They want to get money from Clinton donors in the future, not make waves about the past and atagonize. I just read this piece that says Axelrod et. al. have already recently been actively courting some of her bigger money backers:

According to several Obama bundlers speaking on background, their job at this point wasn’t to flip the Clinton donors, but to achieve a seamlessness in fund-raising operations between the primary and general elections.
“I am a bridge,” said Leonore Blitz, an Obama bundler and advocate for women in politics who attended the May 12 fund-raiser. She said that the guiding principle at the Obama campaign was not to disturb Mrs. Clinton’s more significant backers until they were ready. “These top Hillary supporters and raisers, I haven’t approached them, and I’m sympathetic,” she said. “But the people I know who have maybe written a check to her? Yes, I have called them. And they have called me.”

“When the flag gets raised, everybody has some place to come and it’s organized,” said one of the donors. “It’s not like, ‘We’ll be back to you in two weeks to tell you how you could start participating.’ Because that alone could be off-putting.”

excerpt from "Upper East Side Clinton Donors Sidle To Obama," The New York Observer, May 19 issue; the inside page headline for the article is "Obama Camp Prospects for Clinton Assets."

Posted by artappraiser
May 19, 2008 2:49 AM | Reply | Permalink

Thanks for pointing that out, it's much appreciated.

Posted by RandyRP
May 19, 2008 10:02 AM | Reply | Permalink

I've questioned the claim of having raised $10 million in a day because it's also claimed that it was raised on the internet, on the Clinton Web site. If you check the Alexa report on Web traffic to Clinton's site the day after the PA primary, you really have to wonder.

http://www.alexa.com/data/details/traffic_details/hillaryclinton.com

Site traffic on that day was less than half what it was around Super Tuesday in February. That makes it difficult to believe that so much money was raised online in one day. More interesting is to compare Obama's site traffic to Clinton's, knowing that Obama has never raised that much in one day online.

Posted by Liberal_Elite
May 19, 2008 10:57 AM | Reply | Permalink

I never believed that she raised $10MM in a day, but we'll know soon enough. Overstating (e.g., lying about) it is consistent with trying to recreate inevitability and momentum.

Just think how much more she could have raised had she won by the 15 points that a state that old and white should have delivered for her, instead of 9.

The point upthread about greater margin in Kentucky is in the eye of the beholder. If it's 63-35 in Kentucky and 56-43 in Oregon, the greater margin in popular vote, and the overall win for the night, will be in Oregon.

Posted by articleman
May 19, 2008 12:13 PM | Reply | Permalink

wE'RE sorry, we misspoke. We meant to say, that the day after PA, we lost $10 MILLION in less than 24 hours. Please don't take this, our support, you know, I mean opposition, to the war, youknow, our position, youknow, on NAFTA, which we sup, opposed,youknow,......

Posted by kriminil
May 19, 2008 12:36 PM | Reply | Permalink

It's not a lie if you believe it, right?

Posted by kriminil
May 19, 2008 12:37 PM | Reply | Permalink

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