How The Mighty Have Fallen . . . And Other Campaign News
By Pejman Yousefzadeh Posted in 2008 | Barack Obama | General Pandemonium | Hillary Clinton | Howard Dean — Comments (2) / Email this page » / Leave a comment »
The race for the Democratic Presidential nomination has changed quite a bit, hasn't it?
Democratic Sen. Barack Obama has raised $3 million for his presidential campaign in the 24 hours since the first polls closed on Super Tuesday night.
Obama, riding a wave of fundraising both from large donors and small Internet contributors, also raised a stunning $32 million in January.
Meanwhile, rival Hillary Rodham Clinton acknowledged Wednesday that she loaned her campaign $5 million late last month as Obama was outraising and outspending her heading into Feb. 5 Super Tuesday contests. Some senior staffers on her campaign also are voluntarily forgoing paychecks as the campaign heads into the next round of contests.
The Cult of Obama will get a kick out of this. (For the record, I don't think that there is a cult of Obama, just people who really, really like him. And why not? He may be the liberal Reagan and if I were a liberal, I would want a liberal Reagan too.) Of course, one wonders if the following words were kept in mind by the Clinton campaign when it decided to take a loan from its own candidate:
At a stop in Iowa in December, Bill Clinton raised the issue of funding his wife's campaign. He told a crowd, "They say you couldn't stop me from spending all the money I've saved over the last five years if I wanted to, even though it would clearly violate the spirit of campaign-finance reform."
Duly violated. Meanwhile, the Clintons are looking to March to save them, but if February becomes all about the juggernaut the Obama campaign has become, March may do nothing to save them. Still, it remains a significant possibility that neither Clinton nor Obama will be able to go to the Democratic National Convention with enough delegates to get the nomination on the first ballot. This makes Howard Dean nervous and excitable, and we all know what happens when Howard Dean gets nervous and excitable.
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"Over 3 million" is an understatement.
"Time and the bell have buried the day, the black cloud carries the sun away."
T.S Eliot, Four Quartets.
I see that Rev. Huckabee has made his influence felt here with the bible quote from the Old Testament. Yet David was referring to the Death of Saul and his sons (including Jonathan) when he made reference "oh how the mighty have fallen".
I suspect Hillary is down, but not out.