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The feedback won't be that different, but the outcome may be.

Sarah Granger — Wed, 04 Jun 2008 19:03:12 -0400

She'll receive a lot of messages from people telling her to stay in, and she'll receive a lot of messages asking her to step down, and she'll receive a lot of inflammatory notes that go straight into the trash. I doubt much of it will be too different than what she's been receiving the past month or so. (As Gary Hart's online director, I was privy to his inbox when he was deciding whether to run in '04... the email gets predictable pretty quickly.)

She'll raise some money, and it looks like there are some campaigns pushing her as VP choice for Obama. She might receive suggestions as to whether she should stay in the Senate, go for a different post in the administration, take a hiatus, etc.

The real question is how much the campaign is actually listening vs. just doing this to buy time. They started out with an online announcement suggesting the campaign would be a "conversation", so how does that conversation end? James Carville noted on CNN last night that it takes time to figure these things out.

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.

I Agree.

Chuckumentary — Wed, 08 Aug 2007 20:36:48 -0400

Hey Joshua,
Nice seeing you again @ Kos.
I'm catching up on TechPresTV -- looking good. :-)

We're posting a bunch of Kos video at theuptake.org and my conference roundup was on Rocketboom today.

cheers,
chuck