WP: 73 Top Clinton Donors Switched to Obama

[Rose Siding]

.....More than 70 top Clinton donors wrote their first checks to Obama in March, campaign records show......

"I think she is destroying the Democratic Party," said New York lawyer Daniel Berger, who had backed Clinton with the maximum allowable donation of $2,300. "That there's no way for her to win this election except by destroying , I just don't like it. So in my own little way, I'm trying to send her a message."
...
The Obama converts include William Louis-Dreyfus. The billionaire New York financier said he had been impressed by Clinton's performance in the Senate and distressed by eight years of the Bush administration when he donated the maximum to her campaign last August. Then, he said, he began watching more closely.

"However much one might have supported the Clintons, or one might support the usual suspects in the Democratic Party, I began to believe Obama represents a new approach. He gives off such a sense of relevance that he's sort of irresistible," Louis-Dreyfus said.

He also expressed, as did other big givers who crossed to Obama, exasperation about the tone of the Clinton campaign and frustration with the candidate herself.

"At the end of the day, all she had to do was open her mouth for me not to believe her," Louis-Dreyfus said.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/04/25/AR2008042503707_pf.html

[Botany]

1. Will somebody tell Hillary it is over?

"I think she is destroying the Democratic Party," said New York lawyer Daniel Berger, who had backed Clinton with the maximum allowable donation of $2,300. "That there's no way for her to win this election except by destroying , I just don't like it. So in my own little way, I'm trying to send her a message."

People who worked for and w/ Bill are now supporting Obama.
Hillary is mathematically out of it
She has no money
Super Delegates have gone to Obama 85 to 4 since super tuesday
and now this?

[EFerrari]

2. When your donors are saying you're destructive,

that can't be good. Geeze.

[GarbagemanLB]

3. Yet another article to forward to the remaining SDs.

[meow mix]

4. glad these former clinton supporters have better sense then some around here..

lot of blind people on DU

[Yael]

5. If they are maxed out, it doesn't matter

other than sending the message.

[merh]

9. if they maxed out in their donations to her

does that mean they can't donate to Obama?

[Ichingcarpenter]

12. No, they are maxed out to the Clinton Candidacy

They are maxed to give anymore to her and can give to anyone else until
they max that out

[merh]

14. that's what I thought

thanks for the reply.

Seems that is a danger to the in-debt campaign, no big donors to rely on in the GE and big donors giving to Obama.

[Yael]

20. I thought it was per elevtion (primary vs general)

Is it per election per candidate?

[Barack_America]

11. I would imagine that Louis-Dreyfus, for example, has quite the rolodex.

His daughter Julia, at least! ;)

[TragedyandHope]

6. Kick For Great Justice!

:kick:

[joeybee12]

7. Apparently some of her donors want the fight to end, which begs the question...

...why didn't the people of Pennsylvania want it to end? Or Ohio or Texas?

[cali]

15. Why not read what they said? Some are unhappy with the campaign

she's run, for one thing. And perhaps they have more information than your average voter about the candidate. Doesn't beg anything. The primaries continue. These folks seem to believe that Obama is a better candidate. That's surely their right.

[Hepburn]

19. Just my thoughts on this...

...but since those primaries, she has really pulled back the covering on her claws and has gone after Obama perssonally. Not so much anymore about how much better she is, but rather that he is basically a loser and a bad person. Barack Obama comes off as a genuinely nice person and a gentlemen ~~ the kind of nice guy that people would like as a neighbor, someone who they would seek out as a friend and they kind of guy they would like their daughter to date and marry. IMO, taking a crap on him makes the crapper look nasty and it makes Obama look like he was unjustifiably attacked for no good reason.

Obama's reaction to this of nearly all the time being a gracious gentelman has also made Hillary look bad. He has said little bad about her. So the combination of the two...she loses big time.

FWIW

[DB1]

8. The Joementum is definately working for Hillary.

[Major Hogwash]

23. No kidding. How much farther to the right of dropping nuclear bombs on Iran can she get?

What a loser. I hope she finally "gets it" after Indiana.

[mod mom]

10. "I began to believe Obama represents a new approach" ABSOLUTELY!

[blm]

17. Exactly - end the manipulative 'tactics' of the Bush-Clinton machines.

They reached the height of their power in 2004 - and ended up exposed for all concerned citizens to see.

[mmonk]

13. This will help in the bleeding of funds required

to hold Clinton off during the stretch run towards a unified convention.

[merh]

16. "At the end of the day, all she had to do was open her mouth for me not to believe her,"

As many who don't support hillary's campaign tactics or her efforts have said, she is her own worst enemy.

[Mme. Defarge]

18. Mais c'est fantastique!

[SunsetDreams]

21. kick

[juajen]

22. I read the article, and only saw five people quoted,

some of which we have known about previously; in other words, nothing new.

It's always the headlines with you folks, but then when you read what is linked, it is always short on facts.

Where do you get 70, please?

AFAIC, this smacks of desperation.

[Melinda]

25. The reference to "70 top Clinton donors" is both in the OP and the article

"But that opinion is far from unanimous. More than 70 top Clinton donors wrote their first checks to Obama in March, campaign records show. Clinton's lead among superdelegates, a collection of almost 800 party leaders and elected officials, has slipped from 106 in December to 23 now, according to an Associated Press tally."

[ampad]

24. Wonderful

K&R

[Zachstar]

26. Ah this is good news. Clinton is losing support from all fronts!