I probably won't be publishing these findings in a peer reviewed journal.

You're probably right.

I have personally met five. Three liberals, one conservative, and one I couldn't rate. I probably won't be publishing these findings in a peer reviewed journal.

If the GOP is trying to paint Obama as an "elitist" (the same thing Hillary is trying to do) that should tell you who they are really afraid of...

Clinton loaned her campaign $5 million

Loaned? As in invested? I wonder what she's expecting for ROI.

What's damning is that our political system has evolved(degenerated) to the point that someone would even consider spending that much money to take on a thankless-low paying position. What price ego?

I swear that's one of the most lucid observations I read in a long while. Huzzah!

In the interest of full disclosure I'm a DFH, but not a troll.

Something seems very odd to me. It's no secret that she's the DLC and media preferred candidate. Think of the ratings her impeachment will bring. That being said, where the hell is the money? Howard Dean proved small donors can be a powerful tool and a good indicator of the mood on "teh ground." She doesn't have that working for her. I'm not sure she's really tried, though. Plus,I don't think she is as good at responding to "teh troopz" on "teh ground" as Obama, Huckabee and Paul are. But the "top" of the Democrats are not hurting for cash-money-dollahs. Obama's momentum is real and I kind of wonder if some in the upper echelon of the party and bi-partisan indulgence buyers are hanging her out to dry. I wonder if the Democratic party is having the same fits as the Republicans. The difference being that we keep our loud-mouth assholes out of national commercial syndication. . . oh, and 70% percent of Democrats are "Ok" with either candidates (a very unusual thing for us hippies.)

Poor little Hillary. Howard Wolfson, Hillary Clinton's communications director, confirms: "Late last month Senator Clinton loaned her campaign $5 million.The loan illustrates Sen. Clinton's commitment to this effort and to......

And if there were such a group I doubt they'd be supporting the black junior Senator from Illinois over the former corporate board member, politically connected Senator from New York.

From the AP:

"And from an analysis by the Campaign Finance Institute, which tracks trends in political money, found that Obama raised about a third of his money in 2007 from donors who gave $200 or less. Only one-third of his money came from donors who have given the legal maximum of $2,300, compared to Clinton who raised about half of her money from "maxed out" donors and only 14 percent from donors of $200 or less."

Not a lot of for working stiffs out there able to pony up that $2300.

And another slight correction. Huckabee is selling "Hope" - Obama is selling "Change".

Just sayin'.

The number makes a certain sense to me. Look at their support. Trust fund elites going for Obama, working class stiffs for Clinton.

Yeah, right. Why doesn't Bill Clinton pony up with Kazakstan's dictator, Nursultan A. Nazarbayev, to get some more money from shady Canadian mining financiers?

Of course Obama is charting a new course in politics that disdains big money campaigns in return for hope.