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With her donors tapped out, Clinton turns to Internet (Just call her "Cashless Cankles!")
McClatchy Washington Bureau ^ | 05/04/2008 | Greg Gordon

Posted on 05/04/2008 8:57:05 PM PDT by KentTrappedInLiberalSeattle

WASHINGTON — Running out of high-dollar donors, Hillary Clinton's presidential campaign is stepping up its Internet appeals in hopes of attracting enough contributions to keep afloat financially in the last stretch of Democratic primaries, aides say.

As the marathon money chase has strained the limits of traditional campaign fundraising, Clinton aides have sought increasingly to shadow rival Barack Obama's Internet juggernaut that has raised more than $112 million via the Web,

Through March 31, Clinton had corralled 70 percent of her $148 million in individual primary donations in amounts over $200, including $82 million from those giving between $1,000 and the maximum of $2,300, according to an analysis by the nonpartisan Campaign Finance Institute.

Now, a senior Clinton fundraising operative confided, big donors are nearly tapped out.

(Excerpt) Read more at mcclatchydc.com ...


TOPICS: Editorial; Extended News; Miscellaneous; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: 2008; campaignfinancing; cashlesscankles; clinton; democrats; elections; fundraising; hillary; hillaryclinton; internet

1 posted on 05/04/2008 8:57:06 PM PDT by KentTrappedInLiberalSeattle
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To: Mr. Silverback

More funsies. ;)


2 posted on 05/04/2008 9:06:41 PM PDT by KentTrappedInLiberalSeattle (If McCain really CAN "win without conservatives," then why do you care if I vote for him or not?)
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To: KentTrappedInLiberalSeattle

Salon Editor: Most of the Press ‘Hate, Hate Hillary Clinton’
http://www.breitbart.tv/?p=89633


3 posted on 05/04/2008 9:07:56 PM PDT by buffyt (Glowbull Warming: The Greatest Hoax Since Y 2 K !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!)
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To: KentTrappedInLiberalSeattle

With that kind of spending how come the economy is slow?


4 posted on 05/04/2008 9:10:23 PM PDT by 1Truthseeker (willfully ignorant in Greek means dumb on purpose.)
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To: KentTrappedInLiberalSeattle
Why doesn't she just raise our taxes thru her Congress puppets? You can be damned sure she'll do it IF she gets elected.

What's the matter, Hillary? The Chinese ain't funneling money like they used to?

5 posted on 05/04/2008 9:10:54 PM PDT by kromike
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To: buffyt; Mr. Silverback
This, incidentally, is precisely how gaspingly, grovelingly desperate Ol' Cankles is right about now, as The Obamessiah continues to steamroll his way right over her.

Beat THAT for last-ditch, if you can. ;)

6 posted on 05/04/2008 9:12:14 PM PDT by KentTrappedInLiberalSeattle (If McCain really CAN "win without conservatives," then why do you care if I vote for him or not?)
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To: 1Truthseeker

Not spending. Investment.

That will be paid back 100 times over with federal pork if their horse (or horse looking woman) wins.


7 posted on 05/04/2008 9:25:10 PM PDT by CGTRWK
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To: KentTrappedInLiberalSeattle

Send yer Stimulus Check to Hillary. NOT!


8 posted on 05/04/2008 9:39:49 PM PDT by gunservative
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To: KentTrappedInLiberalSeattle
With the MILLIONS she and her husband are getting in their speeches and book fees they dare not spend their own money proving once more that Liberals LOVE other peoples money to do what they want in the world.
9 posted on 05/04/2008 9:47:06 PM PDT by ICE-FLYER (God bless and keep the United States of America)
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To: Richard Poe

Ping.


10 posted on 05/04/2008 9:49:16 PM PDT by KentTrappedInLiberalSeattle (If McCain really CAN "win without conservatives," then why do you care if I vote for him or not?)
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To: ICE-FLYER; KentTrappedInLiberalSeattle
......they dare not spend their own money proving once more that Liberals LOVE other peoples money to do what they want in the world...

I wonder....Whom are the Saudi supporting?
$hrillary (w/ Huma) or Barrack H. Obamba.....
both have very strong ties w/ Islam.

11 posted on 05/04/2008 10:02:39 PM PDT by skinkinthegrass (just b/c you're paranoid,doesn't mean "they" aren't out to get you..our hopes were dashed by CINOs :)
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To: KentTrappedInLiberalSeattle

Thank you for that link.
Interesting article.

What do you think the chances of this happening are?

I previously thought that Hillary would probably stop just short of this sort of thing, reasoning* that she won’t “go nuclear” because failure at the polls after doing so would mean that her political career was over. One can only burn so many bridges.

I’m not so sure anymore. I now fully expect her to do something like this at or before the convention in Denver.

All I can say is: Laissez les bon temps roulez!

*Which itself is probably unreasonable when you are discussing the Clintons.


12 posted on 05/04/2008 10:06:34 PM PDT by mountainbunny
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To: mountainbunny
What do you think the chances of this happening are?

The odds of her attempting it? Oh, 50/50%, at least.

Odds of it actually being successfully accomplished, on the other hand?, 10, maybe 15%, absolutely maximum. Maybe.

Bottom line, as I see it: the head 'rats -- the actual, genuine movers and shakers within said party -- can handle simple numerical addition readily enough. Confirmed 1.2 million new baby 'rats registered specifically on Obama's electoral behalf + 112 raised in the last 2 -3 months + the fact that the 'rat voting "base" actively loathes and despises Hillary = N-O D-I-C-E. ;)

13 posted on 05/04/2008 10:13:26 PM PDT by KentTrappedInLiberalSeattle (If McCain really CAN "win without conservatives," then why do you care if I vote for him or not?)
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To: KentTrappedInLiberalSeattle; mountainbunny
Should read: "+ 112 million raised in the last 2 -3 months."
14 posted on 05/04/2008 10:16:00 PM PDT by KentTrappedInLiberalSeattle (If McCain really CAN "win without conservatives," then why do you care if I vote for him or not?)
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To: KentTrappedInLiberalSeattle
The odds of her attempting it? Oh, 50/50%, at least.

Agreed. Somewhere in there, she stopped even pretending to care what happens after the election.Odds of it actually being successfully accomplished, on the other hand?, 10, maybe 15%, absolutely maximum. Maybe.

It depends on how you look at it, I guess. I have always thought that the claims that the Clinton's have blackmail materials/FBI files on their many "friends and supporters" was sort of silly. But I really do wonder how she has been allowed to continue her scorched earth policy against Obama, a member of her own party. I see three possibilities:

1). Howard Dean & the Democratic Party leadership are bumbling idiots who cannot control Hurricane Hillary.
2). There is simply no way to control someone who may have stated to Dem leadership that they will not go down without a war
3). Those FBI files really exist and she plans to use them to win at the convention. :D

I'm not sure which I think is true at this point, but I have never seen anything like this before. She seems completely willing to trash her party, her friends, her allies, the convention, elections for decades to come, and her own comfy political position to win this.

Bottom line, as I see it: the head 'rats -- the actual, genuine movers and shakers within said party -- can handle simple numerical addition readily enough. Confirmed 1.2 million new baby 'rats registered specifically on Obama's electoral behalf + 112 raised in the last 2 -3 months + the fact that the 'rat voting "base" actively loathes and despises Hillary = N-O D-I-C-E. ;)

I sincerely hope that you are correct.

15 posted on 05/04/2008 10:44:17 PM PDT by mountainbunny
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To: KentTrappedInLiberalSeattle; Jeremiah Jr; Lijahsbubbe
(Just call her "Cashless Cankles!")

In omen-ese, that would be "broken ankles".

16 posted on 05/04/2008 10:49:31 PM PDT by Ezekiel
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To: KentTrappedInLiberalSeattle

Norman Hsu is in jail and Marc Rich a fugitive in Switzerland.

What’s a criminal girl to do?


17 posted on 05/05/2008 3:19:23 AM PDT by rod1 (uestion)
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To: CGTRWK

Hillarys horse broke its legs and had to be shot.


18 posted on 05/05/2008 3:46:49 AM PDT by Joe Boucher (An enemy of Islam)
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