After winning the Pennsylvania Primaries, Sen. Hillary Clinton gets a $3.5 million fundraising haul literally overnight. The Senator sees this as an opportunity to convince other superdelagates in different states to choose her over her competitor for the Democratic Presidential Representative position, Sen. Barack Obama.
On the other side, Obama’s supporters are saying that he is more likely to win by adding states like Virginia, and that the Pen results won’t change his prospects for capturing the nomination. His campaign manager listed down 13 states wherein Obama would win: Colorado, North Carolina, Oregon and Michigan.
“We can make Montana competitive,” he said, while Mrs. Clinton is losing by double digits. “The best chance we’ll have to win the general election is to expand the playing field.”
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Sen. Hillary Clinton wins the all-important Pennsylvania Primary. She called it as a tide turning contest that eases pressure from her to drop out of the presidential nomination race.
“We were up against a formidable opponent who outspent us three-to-one. He broke every spending record in this state trying to knock us out of the race. Well, the people of Pennsylvania had other ideas,” Mrs. Clinton told supporters at her Philadelphia victory party.
On the losing side, Sen. Obama said the following:
“We closed the gap, we rallied people of every age and race and background to the cause,” he said. “Whether they were inspired for the first time, or for the first time in a long time, we registered a record number of voters, and it is those new voters who will lead our party to victory in November.”
We’ll see in November who wins the ultimate prize.
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Obama’s comments on Pennsylvanians have provided his opponents with some bullets to shoot his chances at being the Democrat Candidate for the Presidency.
According to Clinton, “Pennsylvania doesn’t need a president who looks down on them, they need a president who stands up for them, who fights for them, who works hard for your futures, your jobs, your families.” As for McCain, he says Sen. Obama, “shows an elitism and condescension towards hardworking Americans that is nothing short of breathtaking.”
Obama responds by talking about the current situation in Pennsylvania. “Of course they’re bitter and of course they’re frustrated. You would be too … the same thing is happening all across the country,” he said, noting that people then “don’t vote on economic issues because they don’t expect anybody is going to help them. And so they end up voting on issues like guns … on issues like gay marriage and they take refuge in their faith.”
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Sen. Hilary Clinton still needs to pay her ex-chief strategist, Mark J. Penn, around $2.5 Mil. The debt was still on the February campaign ledger.
According to the March report, despite paying more than $3 Mil for Penn’s polling firm that month the debt was still not paid. The money owed to him is more than a quarter of the campaign’s debt of $8.7 Mil. Hilary’s campaign sent out $10 Mil to Penn’s firm since last year. He will continue to receive paychecks as a n adviser and pollster for Hillary.
Although Hillary would like to distance herself from the embarrassing event with Penn, she still has a relationship with him because she continues to pay him until today.
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Sen. Barack Obama raised more than $40 Million in March to become the Democrats presidential nominee.
The Washington Times say that the campaign has a record of almost 1.3 million donors. With 442,000 donors just last month sending an average of $96. Of last months donors, 218,000 were first-time contributors.
What made so many people to contribute? Barack Obamas campaign manager replies, “Today we’re seeing the American people’s extraordinary desire to change Washington, as tens of thousands of new contributors joined the more than a million Americans who have already taken ownership of this campaign for change. Many of our contributors are volunteering for the campaign, making our campaign the largest grassroots army in recent political history.”
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