How will Clinton compete on Super Tuesday?
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- January
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At this hour it’s not clear which of the two remaining major Democrats running for president is in a better cash position going into Super Tuesday.
Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton’s presidential campaign started 2008 with $37.9 million in cash, having raised $27.3 million in last three months of 2007, according to a public disclosure report.
The campaign received another $3 million in donations and $5 million in future commitments during the first eight days of the year, co-chairman Terry McAuliffe told reporters immediately after the New Hampshire primary.
How much of that money remains after expensive campaigns in Iowa, New Hampshire, Nevada and South Carolina hasn’t been announced. Nor has the Clinton campaign announced how much money it raised in January. Public disclosure of that amount if not required until Feb. 20.
“We have all the resources we need to compete and win in this contest,’’ Clinton spokesman Blake Zeff stated in an e-mail this evening. “Increasingly, the dynamics in this race are favoring a Hillary Clinton candidacy, as she leads in most of the Feb. 5 states, especially those with the largest number of delegates.”
Sen. Barack Obama’s campaign manager David Pflouffe, meanwhile told reporters in a Thursday morning conference call that the campaign had already raised $32 million in January from 170,000 new donors who increased the number of Obama’s financial backers to 650,000.
But as of 11 p.m. Thursday the Obama campaign’s yearend financial disclosure report for 2007 had not yet been posted on the Web site of the Federal election Commission. The filing deadline is not until midnight and there may be a delay by the FEC in posting the report on the Internet.
“Obviously this contest could go on for some time in the primary,’’ Plouffe said earlier in the day. “And we think that the strength of our financial position and the number of donors does speak to financial sustainability, if it ends up going through March and April. We think we are going to have the resources necessary to conduct vigorous campaigns in every states to come.’’
Obama and Clinton – who put on their best manners for a cordial one-on-one debate earlier this evening in Los Angeles – both will campaign to multiple states in the days leading up to Super Tuesday.
Because she can’t personally get to every Super Tuesday state in the short time available, Clinton will reach out via the web Monday night for a 90-minute town hall style meeting that will link 21 cities.
Obama’s campaign, on the other hand, is reaching out to its new donors to also volunteer at phone banks or going door to door.
















