Originally posted by RJT
I know you're just this kid on tranceaddict.com/forums with a degree in political science who lives in D.C. - but reading that really made me feel much better following this past week.
Ha! I've fooled you all. I'm actually a thirteen year old girl living in Ron Paul's basement.
But thanks. :)
I'm a nerd for this stuff and I like explaining it.
Lebezniatnikov
Also, take a look at these numbers, and keep in mind the fact that the McCain campaign had to file for bankruptcy in early January before they won in New Hampshire.
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In an extraordinary haul, the Obama campaign confirms that it raised an astonishing $55 million in February.
More than $45 million of it was raised online.
Woah.
Remember, when the Hillary campaign announced they'd raised in the neighborhood of $36 million for the month, the Obama camp played it close to the vest, saying only that they'd raised "considerably more." They held off on releasing the figures until now -- after the March 4th voting -- which prompted speculation that they were hoping to release the numbers to either shift the story away from Hillary's victories or put a final nail in the Hillary campaign's coffin had she not had a good showing.
Whatever their reasons for holding off until now, it's an extraordinary pull.
Late Update Some more stats from the campaign:
* Contributors: 727,972
* First Time Contributors: 385,101
* Total Contributors – Campaign to Date: 1,069,333
Online Fundraising:
* More than $45 million raised online in February
* More than 90% of online donations were $100 or less
* More than 50% of online donations were $25 or less
* More than 75% of online donors in February were first-time online donors
* More than a third of those new online donors in February went on to engage in volunteer activity on My.BarackObama.com (planning their own offline events, making phone calls from home, joining local grassroots volunteer groups)
The Clinton campaign may go to court. The Obama campaign wants to take its delegates and get out of town before sundown. The Texas Two-Step is overheating an already fired up Democratic presidential contest.
The Newsblog mentioned this on Wednesday but there is a very good chance that winning the Texas primary might not mean that Sen. Hillary Clinton gets to take away the most delegates. That because after the primary -- which she won 51-47 percent -- come the caucuses and it looks like Sen. Barack Obama may win those.
Here's where the delegate count gets funky. NPR's Wade Goodwyn and Robert Siegel report that Clinton's primary win means she snapped up 65 delegates to Obama's 61. Not a big difference, but a difference nonetheless. But if the numbers in the caucus vote hold up, then Obama will win 37 more pledged delegates to Clinton's 30. So Obama would have 98 delegates and Clinton 95 and he would leave Texas with three more delegates that Clinton
But wait, there's more. It might not all get sorted out until summer ...
"The end result of the Texas caucuses was that attendees picked delegates. These delegates will then go on to attend a county convention in late March to caucus. Then, the delegates from the county convention must go to the state convention and hold another caucus. The whole Texas process will not be wrapped up until June."
The Clinton camp is none to happy about this development and is threatening to take legal action because it said it won the state. The Obama campaign is trying to retroactively claim victory in a place which many news organizations had already reported that Clinton won.
Somewhere John McCain is smiling.
For an election the Democrats are supposed to have locked up right now, they sure seem to be doing everything they can to look like a couple of kids fighting over whose turn it is with the kickball on the playground.
This type of nonsense is easily my least favorite part of the political process in this country - not because I think Obama deserves the label "winner" in Texas, but because this petty infighting over absurd issues serves absolutely no one but Hilary and Obama in an election where I think it's well ing time for people to start focusing on what the American public want instead of worrying about maintaining the continuing streak of political douchebaggery.
Well, I'm from wisconsin and I don't want obama to win. I'm not a fan of either of them, but I just don't think obama would be able to have the kind of international image necessary for the job. Obama would be great at another time, but right now we kinda need a bitch like hillary to get things back together.
Obama just has a bunch of charisma with no track record, nobody has any clue what he's going to do when he gets in office, at least you know what hillary is going to do -- it's gonna be Bill Clinton all over again.
When Obama talks, he just sounds too big for his britches, like he's trying so hard to sound like he knows what to do while obviously being a noob.
Alex
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Originally posted by chadi
Well, I'm from wisconsin and I don't want obama to win. I'm not a fan of either of them, but I just don't think obama would be able to have the kind of international image necessary for the job. Obama would be great at another time, but right now we kinda need a bitch like hillary to get things back together.
Obama just has a bunch of charisma with no track record, nobody has any clue what he's going to do when he gets in office, at least you know what hillary is going to do -- it's gonna be Bill Clinton all over again.
When Obama talks, he just sounds too big for his britches, like he's trying so hard to sound like he knows what to do while obviously being a noob.
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I think you're just used to a president who can't deliver a speech worth a .
Also, Hillary is a moron.
She's based her whole campaign now on experience and the latest thing "national security", both things will be of NO USE to her come time to battle it out with McCain, who has a lot more experience than she does, and is overall much better liked.
He's also a war hero and is the GO TO MAN for national security, so how exactly is Hillary going to win?
Sure the economy is a huge issue right now, and McCain seems weak on the economy, but that's one issue and if McCain wants he can run a campaign based PURELY on Hillary's ups and faults, and those of her husband and win the election.
If Obama goes up against McCain, McCain will lose almost certainly. If the republicans can't run smear campaigns, they never win, and all the so called experts are predicting that it will be a clean campaign if Obama goes up against McCain.
