Hillary Rising, Ole'

St. Obama's fund raising not so clean

The MSM is lying in their teeth regarding his fund raising. Most of his checks are for the maximum allowed $2,300; Public Citizen released a report detailing ten bundlers for Sen. Obama who have registered as federal lobbyists. Bundlers are the Hillary types who cover up sources of donations. This via Myddd

"Obama, whose campaign claims to have almost 500,000 donors in 2007, raised 54% of his $97.2 million from $1,000 and over donations (mostly in $2300 checks)."

(Less than a third, only 32%, of his money in 2007 came from $200 or less contributions.)

Hillary is raising tons of money from lots and lots of women. Obama is raising a suspicious amount from a very small internet donor base. Kerry had 2mln and Obama only 650,000 (link to very left, but not necessarily dishonest, site). It is pointed out that Obama has converted non-donors into activists who are very effective. Clinton has now run out of (couch potato) "fat cats" and has suddenly adopted the Obama strategy of turning donors, almost all of whom are women, into activists. Her one day haul of $7mln is impressive.

In other words, the Obama campaign has had a strategy of cultivating online donors and activists, they know how to do it, and they are very good at it. The Clinton campaign has not done any of this particularly well because it hasn't been their strategy. And somehow, they are at rough parity over the last 48 hours. There is probably something of an earthquake inside the Clinton campaign when these tired Clinton operatives, cynical for 20 years, actually feel, really feel, her supporters reach out and lift them up for the first me.

Then there is the following from Open Left:

To put his records in perspective, consider Tuesday's primary electorate. The candidates split about 14.6 million voters in 22 states. Obama's donors equal a striking 9 percent of his Super Tuesday turnout. Add the non-donor supporters that Obama has engaged, from office volunteers and decentralized phone bankers to the unprecedented 1.13 million people publicly declaring their endorsements on social networking sites, and over one out of ten Obama voters are essentially activists. This is why Obama is winning caucuses by huge amounts now. If you can get someone to donate or attend a rally, then you can get that person to turn out at a caucus. His huge activist army is why Obama is doing so well in caucuses.

Now let's see if Hillary can kick all the feminazis into gear. If she can, and if you know any feminists you know how fucking ideologically pure and crazy they are, she wins. But the entire Left is organizing on the web at a truly unprecedented pace with hundreds of blogs lining up to join the propaganda campaign. See HERE

Dick Morris, not exactly a political moron, thinks none of this matters because Hillary owns the Hispanic vote and without it Obama is toast no matter how many internet squirrels store their financial nuts in his purse.