HRC conference call: $10 million raised since last night!

2008 Presidential Race, Hillary Clinton, National, Politics 1 Minute

I, along with some 3,100 other Clinton supporters, just completed a conference call with the Senator, Campaign Chairman, Terry McAuliffe, and some of the fundraising staff. (Sorry – I didn’t catch all the names.) A couple of quick things:

  • All said that Clinton was outspent by about 3:1 in Pennsylvania
  • Since 10pm last night, Clinton has raised $10 million online, from some 60,000 new contributors
  • Looking at the electoral map, Clinton has won the Democratic states plus 4 key battleground states, representing some 285 electoral votes.

The Senator was quite pleased with the results last night, saying that as they look deeper into the results, there is more good news there. She said there was “a broad base of support that it will take to win in November.” Calling from Indianapolis, Clinton said this was her 50th visit there.

Of course, this call was really about the campaign’s needs: volunteers and money. If you can help out, please do so.

UPDATE: One thing I failed to note from the call was that Hillary now leads the so-called “popular vote” total. Now, I’m not a fan of any of the calculations of the popular vote. The fact is that four states that held caucuses – Iowa, Nevada, Washington & Maine – never released their popular vote total so any calculation is a guesstimate. Nevertheless, RCP shows the lead mentioned in the call. And this video? Well, I’ll let it do the talking 😉

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23 thoughts on “HRC conference call: $10 million raised since last night!”

  3. Just felt like pointing out how you fail to mention that these vote totals include both Michigan and Florida (Obama wasn’t even on the ballot in Michigan and didn’t campaign in Florida because both were against the DNC rules).

    Even including Florida, however, Obama still is leading in the popular vote by 205,581 votes (315,803 if you want to include legitimate estimates of the vote totals in the four caucus states that didn’t officially announce the raw totals). That means the only way that Clinton is winning the popular vote is if you include Michigan — an unsanctioned contest that didn’t even have Obama on the ballot. Seems like a fairly undemocratic way of counting the popular vote.

  4. My goodness. Didn’t I say that I don’t buy any of the popular vote total calculations? How much clearer can I be?

    And no one campaigned in FL (unless you count the ads that Obama ran that aired there).

  5. Fair enough… didn’t mean to launch an attack against you, Vivian. I just was a little frustrated with the fact that the Clinton campaign seemed to launching some spin that didn’t really sit with the facts that I see.

  6. The Obamanation has tried to screw Michigan and Florida by resisting all efforts to have a recognized vote to reselect delegates to be seated. So you may disenfranchise the states and delegates, but we will be damned if you will be allowed to disenfranchise the people of these pivotal swing states you are throwing on the electoral college trash heap.

    No REAL Democrat would consider such a thing, except barry obama and his crowd.

  7. Bryan – don’t get frustrated with campaign spin. After all, that’s what campaigns do. There’s been plenty of that on both sides.

    NND – as big a Clinton fan as I am, I don’t see FL and MI as equal situations. FL was, in my opinion, a legitimate primary and its votes should count and its delegates seated. MI was a whole different ballgame. Despite the fact that the Obama campaign organized an effort to get folks to vote uncommitted, once he removed his name from the ballot, MI broke the rules and there should be some penalty for that. Should they not be seated at all? No, I think that is too strong a penalty, because the voters didn’t have anything to do with the party moving the primary. But there has to be a penalty for the behavior. Perhaps seating half is the answer.

  8. I would normally agree. However, I think the efforts of obama and his paid pit bull in Michigan should not be rewarded.

    Here is a link to the efforts, lead by Obama supporters in the MI legislature, to his efforts to stop the people of Michigan from having a re-vote for a DNC approved slate of delegates.

    Click to access bauer-michigan-memo.pdf

    No matter how you slice and dice it, an alleged democrat led an effort to stop Michigan from having a seat in Denver. Obama, IMHO, will be a illegitimate nominee if his efforts towards disenfranchisement are successful. Kumbaya my tush.

  10. Hillary wins by 9.2%. which rounds out to 9%

    Candidate Votes Percent
    CLINTON, HILLARY (DEM)
    1,238,351 54.6%
    OBAMA, BARACK (DEM)
    1,030,805 45.4%

    Pa SOS results.

  11. linda – you’re starting to become one of those annoying Obama supporters that run from place to place making comments that have nothing to do with the conversation. Where in this conversation did anyone say 10%? No where! And you must be math challenged to say that 9.2% is less than 9%.

    Your candidate got beat. Live with it.

    Either add to the conversation or go play in the Obama sandboxes.

  13. Look NN DEM, I’m one of the Yellowest dogs YOU will EVER meet, hence the screen name.
    STFU about the “Obamanation” et al. If all you can do is slam another DEM and can’t talk about the policies and positons of HRC, then you arent a lousy so-called-dem.

    As for MI and FL, let me just say- the DNC should be ashamed of itself for not brokering this better and if I was a Dem in either of those states- I would be calling for the heads of the party leaders. If this was the DPVA that F****D up so I didnt get a vote- I’d be in downtown Richmond right now calling for the chairs head.
    So- here’s my advice, stop making all the other AWESOME Dems in NN look bad, show some maturity, support your candidate all day- just don’t get all Lee Atwater about it, and remember- after this is said and done- we will all be swimming in the same pool. Stop peeing in it and look ahead.

    And, Vivan I apologize for losing my temper. I hate seeing Dems (on either side of this) slam other Dems.

  14. And NN Dem, let also add that I have numerous friends and family in both FL and MI who feel that both state parties played russian roulette and lost.

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