Whatever they say, It’s the money

[babylonsister]

http://www.hillaryproject.com/index.php?/en/story-details/whatever_they_say_its_the_money/

Whatever they say, It’s the money
By Kathy Miller | The Hillary Project


By: Richard Reeves


When they say, "It's not the money ..." -- it's the money!

After all is said and almost done, the numbers that are dragging Hillary Clinton to the end of her campaign are not delegate counts but dollar amounts. She is already more than $20 million in debt, and her campaign is costing something like $1 million a day.

No matter how gritty our girl is, she can't keep this up forever. The big donors she counted on when folks talked about the illusory "well-oiled Clinton money machine" have mostly dropped by the wayside, either having given all they could under new restrictive fundraising rules, or because they were disgusted with the meanness and old-fashioned incompetence of the Clinton campaign.

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On to November. Obama is already actively organizing for the general election in almost every state, large and small. He has the money and people to do that. The assumed Republican candidate does not. John McCain raised a total of $77 million through March, compared with Clinton's $189 million and Obama's $231 million by that point -- almost all of that in donations of $200 and less.

The bottom line is that Obama is where he is because of Change We Can Believe In. With the help of the Internet and the tireless force of young people who understand this new world, he has changed the way candidates run and win campaigns. Believe it!

[gateley]

1. Agree 100% -

And I've joked that's what's going to be on my tombstone -- "It's always the fucking money."

[fascisthunter]

2. Something Tells Me She is Further in Debt Than $20 Million

No... I don't mean in debt with money either.

[babylonsister]

5. Favors owed? How will they be repaid now? nt

[Warpy]

3. The DLC has consistently misread the way this party works

in its insistence on running everything from the top down. We just don't work that way, we work from the grassroots up.

The reason the Clinton campaign has been so tenacious in the face of defeat is that it's really a battle for leadership of the party. It certainly isn't ideology since the voting records of both are nearly identical. The DLC, long in the driver's seat in the party leadership bus, doesn't want to give up the privilege.

If anything good comes out of this acrimony, I sincerely hope it's the death of the DLC as the driving force in this party.

Clinton is a good candidate. Most of us really wanted to like her. However, her campaign staff have made this incredibly difficult. Let's hope she's the last good candidate to have a campaign torpedoed by DLC mismanagement.

[SharonAnn]

6. So maybe the DLC, along with Al From, will just go away?

[snappyturtle]

4. Absolutely. eom