UPDATED: Hillary Campaign bragging about tricking donors.

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Terry McAuliffe told donors and reporters on a conference call that the campaign has raised $7.5 million online this month, more than $6 million of it in the last 24 hours. The message: She's alive and kicking.

Interestingly, the campaign's spin is that Clinton's loan to the campaign -- taken by many as a sign of desperation -- was an effective fundraising tactic, encouraging people to donate.

"They said, 'I didn’t know you needed money, I thought you had all the money you need,'" McAuliffe said.

More evidence of cash on hand, per McAuliffe: "We are going up immediately in Washington state, Maine and Nebraska," he said of a planned television campaign, which will feature former Nebraska Senator Bob Kerrey in his home state. The campaign would run ads in Ohio and Texas starting early next week.

http://www.politico.com/blogs/bensmith/0208/Clinton_claims_a_money_surge_plans_ads.html#comments


Hey, I will give them credit their tactic does indeed seem to be working.


UPDATE: It seems the Clinton staff going without pay was a ruse to.

So it turns out the Clinton campaign may not be so cash-strapped after all — at least not at this very moment.

After offering on Wednesday to go without paychecks to help save precious campaign resources, senior staff members on Hillary Clinton's campaign are in fact not going without pay during the month of February, ABC News has learned.

http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/Vote2008/story?id=4257358&page=1