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 Posted: Sun May 11, 2008 3:00 am Post subject: Whatever they say, It's the money |
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 Whatever they say, It's the money
By: Richard ReevesWhen they say, "It's not the money ..." -- it's the money!
Category: Commentary
By: Richard ReevesWhen they say, "It's not the money ..." -- it's the money!After all is said and almost done, the numbers that are dragging Hillary Clinton to the end of her campaign are not delegate counts but dollar amounts. She is already more than $20 million in debt, and her campaign is costing something like $1 million a day. No matter how gritty our girl is, she can't keep this up forever. The big donors she counted on when folks talked about the illusory "well-oiled Clinton money machine" have mostly dropped by the wayside, either having given all they could under new restrictive fundraising rules, or because they were disgusted with the meanness and old-fashioned incompetence of the Clinton campaign. So one way the long Democratic contest could end is for Barack Obama to agree to pay off part of Clinton's debts -- the $10 million she owes to vendors -- in return for her withdrawal and "enthusiastic" support. But that's another old-fashioned tactic, and the Obama campaign has prevailed this last year and a half by understanding the difference between the old and the new. The new guys from Chicago understood two very big things: (1) Proportional distribution of delegates in primaries and caucuses meant that old big-state strategies would not work the way they did when winner-take-all primaries gave candidates a chance to win more than 300 delegates in California and almost as many in New York;
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