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[whometense]

Democratic candidates jockey for top fundraisers

By Jill Zuckman
Washington Bureau
Published February 9, 2007

WASHINGTON -- The first phone call came from John Edwards. Sen. Joseph Biden reached out the next day. A few days later, Sen. Hillary Clinton called too.

Joan Lukey, a Boston lawyer, has been lavished with attention in recent weeks. But it's not her legal skills that interest her political suitors--it's her proven ability to raise money for Democratic candidates.

With the 2008 presidential race starting earlier than its predecessors--and with an unusually large number of aspirants--candidates need more money than ever before to pay large staffs, travel to primary states and get their message out to voters in a burst of multistate advertising. The ability to raise millions fast will separate the successful candidates from those likely to die a quick political death.

That means people like Lukey, who single-handedly raised about $1.7 million for Sen. John Kerry's presidential effort, are in big demand. "I just find myself unable to make a decision and perhaps a little unwilling to make a decision," said Lukey, who shared a glass of wine with Edwards recently in Cambridge, Mass., at his request...

http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/chi-0702090100feb09,1,5726852.story?coll=chi-newsnationworld-hed

[wisteria]

1. OMG, I know what she means.I can understand her feelings. n/t

[beachmom]

2. We're too emotionally fragile to jump on a whole new ship.

It's a whole year until the primaries. I may be one of those annoying primary voters who waits until a few days beforehand to decide.

[karynnj]

3. same here - if then

I'm hoping that one of them will surprise me, but none will really fill Senator Kerry's shoes. The question might even be, who as President will support the types of things that Kerry would have.

[Democrafty]

4. Exactly. I think it's ok, though.

Nobody's just entitled to our support. We are going to feel whatever we're going to feel, when we're going to feel it. Until then, there's too much to do to cave into pressure from anybody.