The Swamp: Hillary Clinton Edges Out Obama for Primary Cash in the Bank

[flpoljunkie]

October 15, 2007

Clinton edges out Obama for primary cash in the bank (The authors dropped the "barely" in their original title already!)

Posted at 7:30 PM
by John McCormick and Mike Dorning, updated at 8:45 p.m. Eastern

Sen. Hillary Clinton's campaign just announced she has $35 million in the bank for use in her primary campaign, just slightly more than the $32 million reported earlier this evening by Sen. Barack Obama.

It remains unclear at this hour whether Clinton added more new donors during third quarter than Obama.

The Illinois Democrat's campaign said it had 108,000 new donors during the quarter, when it pulled in $20 million. That's more new donors than the 100,000 reported by the New York senator earlier this month when her preliminary third-quarter data was released.

Obama spokesman Bill Burton said a surge in donations via the Internet and mail brought the campaign's total new donors for the quarter to 108,000, up significantly from the preliminary number of 93,000 released earlier this month.

During the first three quarters of the year, Obama amassed 365,000 donors.

“The strength of our historic small donor base is in activism, not just contributions,” campaign manager David Plouffe said in a statement. “The vast majority of these supporters have not yet achieved their full giving potential and will ensure our ability to continue to raise the resources needed to win the nomination. Many of these donors will also provide organizational strength by going door-to-door, making phone calls and actively helping Barack Obama become the next president of the United States.”

http://weblogs.baltimoresun.com/news/politics/blog/2007/10/obama_has_32_million_in_bank_f.html

[DemocratSinceBirth]

1. Does That Mean They Both Already Spent Over $30,000,000.00?

[bigdarryl]

2. Another article says she has 50 million on hand which is it

[beyurslf]

3. Some of the cash on hand may be in reserve for the general so both are probably right.

[flpoljunkie]

4. You are correct--$15 million of the $50 can be used only for the general election.

From The Politico's Ben Smith...

From a Clinton aide: "We have approx $50 million cash on hand: approx $35 million for the primary and approx $15 million for the general."

[illinoisprogressive]

5. Obama has a huge grassroots movement going. These are people who

don't always vote and don't vote in primaries and are committed and are voting in the primary just for him.
these are people who have never given to campaigns and have to Obama

[ElizabethDC]

6. The same goes for Hillary and the other candidates, I'm sure.

This will be the first time I'm voting in a primary and the first time I've donated to a presidential campaign, and I'm not voting for or donating to Obama in the primary. :shrug:

[Connie_Corleone]

8. Obviously, IP wasn't talking about you. Just a general statement.

[Grandrose]

7. Very interesting and confusing!

Would someone explain to me, with the number of donors and money comparisons so close, what's up with the disparity in polling? Not saying the polls are wrong, but that it just do not add up and something is missing!
I am so confused!:dilemma: