Hillary raised only $13.5 million last month...$18.5 millions less than Obama.

[jefferson_dem]

Clinton's January: $13.5 million

That's from campaign chairman Terry McAuliffe on MSNBC today:

Russert: Last month. You guys raised 10 million.

McAuliffe: We won the fourth quarter and the third quarter. We actually raised more in '07 than Barack Obama did.

Russert: How's your money holding up?

McAuliffe: It's good. I mean, he -- you said 10. We actually about did about 13 1/2, which I was very proud of. We had more cash on hand at the end of '07. He had a great January. Hats off. I've been raising money for a long time. All the compliments in the world to the Obama campaign. They raised a lot of money on the internet. I heard over 25 million on the internet. Congratulations to them. No one should be worried about Hillary Clinton, though. We will always have our resources to get our message out.

A lot of money by most measures, but less than half of what Obama's claiming for the month.

http://www.politico.com/blogs/bensmith/0208/Clintons_January_135_million.html

[Drunken Irishman]

1. This is why I believe Hillary needs to clean up tomorrow.

She's not positioned for a long fight, Obama is.

If she can come out and put him away, blowing the doors off many Super Tuesday states, she should win the nomination. If it's close, or Obama has an advantage (however slight), I think it'll be very difficult for her to win this thing in the long run.

[Yurovsky]

2. Agree 100% ... longer race = Obama wins

with the limit on donations, it's obvious that far more people are giving to Obama than Billary. That momentum would suffer a big setback if Billary won a significant majority of states & delegates tomorrow.

I think it'll be close, with neither scoring a decisive victory tomorrow. But as you stated, the longer it goes on, the better the odds for Senator Obama. Of course, if Obama wins big tomorrow, Clinton will have a very difficult task at reversing what would appear to be insurmountable momentum. I've got all fingers & toes crossed, as I'm sure millions of Iraqi citizens do as well.

Time to elect a president who will end our needless foreign wars and bring our troops home; focus on what's broken here before we go trying to remake the world in whatever image Chimpy & Co. believe should exist.

[Herman Munster]

6. money is not going to be a problem

The Clinton's will loan their campaign all of their net worth if they have to and then raise it back later to pay the loan off. They have upwards of $50 million if I recall.

[Drunken Irishman]

7. You can say that, but I disagree. :)

[KittyWampus]

12. All the more reason for Clintons to release their tax records from 2006.

[BeyondGeography]

3. That's a blowout...and Obama's donors are nowhere near as maxed out

[bigtree]

4. the money comes with progress in the election

to either candidate, Obama obviously has the mo

[ShadowLiberal]

5. What the heck is her campaign doing announcing those kinds of numbers early?!?

Why would Hillary's campaign announce they got murdered in January fund raising compared to Obama, two months before they have to announce it?

[thoughtcrime1984]

8. Obama's bought and paid for

by hundreds of thousands of small, private donors! I'm ready to send more, who's with me? :)

[jillan]

9. How sad it is that 13. million is considered as doing shitty.

[VolcanoJen]

10. Holy cow.

That actually shocks me. Follow. The. Money. To. The. Momentum.

[smalll]

11. No surprise Obama is out-raising Hillary at this point -

he has the Latte Liberals. They have a habit of throwing money at froth. :shrug: