Has Obama forced Clinton to spend herself into the poorhouse?
April 22nd, 2008 at 07:32pm Pat Cunningham
While we still don’t know the outcome of today’s balloting in Pennsylvania, it might be that Barack Obama has won a crucial victory in terms of money.
Moments ago, political pundit Howard Fineman offered a keen insight on MSNBC. He said Obama has forced Hillary Clinton’s campaign to spend itself broke in Pennsylvania.
Fineman says Hillary’s big money raisers “are tapped out,” leaving her only the Internet as a source of funds for campaigning in the upcoming primaries in North Carolina and Indiana.
But the Internet is Obama’s turf, and Hillary likely won’t do well raising money online unless her victory tonight is substantial, which is uncertain at this writing.
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1. Menlo Bob | April 22nd, 2008 at 9:10 pm
Election money rules are endlessly confusing. Anyone know whether money raised for the primary can be converted for use in the general election? McCain seems to think that he and Obama have a handshake agreement to use public funding if they’re the choice of their party. McCain wants to continue the pledge and Obama is making noises about change. Considering what\’s at stake this is one kind of change Obama is likely to achieve.
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