techPresident - The Clinton-Obama Money Chase Continues [UPDATED] - Comments

Even $100 for an average

Marco Carbone — Thu, 24 Apr 2008 17:49:31 -0400

Even $100 for an average donation is suspect, especially since the Clinton was pushing for $5 donations. My guess is that the point of the $5 dollar push was to inflate the new donor count, in order to mask maximum donations coming from her usual pool of donors and raising the average donation. The answers to two questions to the Clinton campaign would make this clear:

1) How much of the $10 million is for the primary vs. the national election?

2) Rather than the average, what was the *median* donation during the post-PA period?

Hillary Spin

Mr. X — Thu, 24 Apr 2008 16:49:09 -0400

+9. She won by +9. This is a site that requires participants to answer an addition problem?

Hillary Spin

eagleye — Thu, 24 Apr 2008 15:29:47 -0400

Somehow the Clinton camp has managed to get the corporate media to buy into the notion that she has enjoyed spectacular success in Texas, Ohio, and Pennsylvania. She once had whopping big leads in those states, yet Obama walked away with more delegates in Texas, and she only came up +10 in Pennsylvania, a state that was demographically tailor-made for her campaign. Yet somehow the results from these states gets reported as "game-changing."

Oy.

The Clinton-Obama Money Chase Continues [UPDATED]

Micah L. Sifry — Thu, 24 Apr 2008 11:08:27 -0400

So now the Clinton campaign ~~is walking back~~ has clarified its post-PA fundraising numbers (and I'm clarifying my initial post as well). As I noted yesterday, the campaign's finance co-chair Hassan Nemazee left the distinct impression with both the Washington Post and Business Week that the campaign had somehow pulled in more than $10 million "overnight" from Tuesday's Pennsylvania primary. Today's New York Times and Washington Post both take those claims as achievements, but Peter Daou, the campaign's internet director, makes clear that ~~they haven't quite made it there yet~~ $10M was a projection that the campaign put out midday and hit sometime last night. Meanwhile, the Obama campaign has probably pulled in $6.5 million since Tuesday, and most of that was before it started an email push in response to Clinton's claims.