70 top Clinton donors write their first checks to Obama

[dkf]

While reading the WAPO article below, I picked up this little gem.

Woah! 70 of her top donors defected in March. This is another reason why Hillary is $15M in the hole.

Nice WAPO graph below showing the closing gap of Super's since December 2007.

"Pennsylvania did the job of calming any nerves that existed," said Clinton campaign spokesman Jay Carson. "It showed that the big states around the country think she's the best person to be president."

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.

http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2008/4/26/92414/8953/632/503810

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/04/25/AR2008042503707.html?hpid=topnews

[anonymous171]

1. Awesome!

:kick:

[C_U_L8R]

2. Hillary's right, the tide has indeed changed

and it's looking pretty low and stinky around Clinton HQ

[dkf]

3. More from Wapo article...

There are signs that the anger voiced by some African Americans is beginning to extend to the Democratic donor base. Campaign finance records released this week show that a growing number of Clinton's early supporters migrated to Obama in March, after he achieved 11 straight victories. Of those who had previously made maximum contributions to Clinton, 73 wrote their first checks to Obama in March. The reverse was not true: Of those who had made large contributions to Obama last year, none wrote checks to Clinton in March.

"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 message came in the form of a $2,300 contribution to Obama.

[Cha]

6. Oh, that we all could "send her a message in our

own little way"! I know the Afro-Americans have which comes under the heading of .."what were the me-first clintons" thinking?

[WA98296]

4. That was March. I can't wait to see what has happened in APRIL. n/t

[Cha]

5. Hopefully this is the

tip of the ICEBERG.

[scheming daemons]

7. The tide is turning! LOL.......

[quantass]

8. .

[Medusa]

9. Let's hope more follow in their wake, not because Obama needs the $

but to send her and her despicable campaign a strong message.

[Scurrilous]

10. K & R

:thumbsup:

[bigbrother05]

11. ...

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