Comments on: Obama Raises $32 Million in January

By: Showing Obama The Money

Showing Obama The Money — Fri, 01 Feb 2008 12:49:14 +0000

[...] raised $32 million dollars last month, and he’s gonna need it. He has been spending gobs of money on TV and radio spots in the [...]

By: mw

mw — Thu, 31 Jan 2008 18:51:54 +0000

In California (San Francisco), the Clinton and Obama ads are in full swing. It looks like a one for one. Clinton's ads are touting energy independence, Obama's ads touting Health Care. Both high road so far. I'm guessing that Clinton gamesmanship will out over the Obama supporter's passionate idealism, but it will continue to be a WWF Battle Royale until the convention. The more bitter, the more heated, the more personal and nasty the Clinton/Obama steel cage match becomes - the more likely they wind up tag-teaming on the same ticket to go after the Republicans. When Clinton wins, she’ll understand that the only way to bring the oh-so-bitter Obama constituency (poor babies) along is to put him on the ticket. Her ambition will trump their animosity. With that ticket, the Dems have the best chance to win and probably will. It is the best thing for Obama too. After 8 years as VP, the experience thing goes away, and the Presidency is his by acclamation. We probably won’t even bother with an election. The country gets 16 years of Democrats in the White House. You can decide for yourself if that is a good thing. Personally, I don't mind, as long as the Dems don't hold both houses of Congress. No way to avoid that for the next two years, but the Republicans will have a reasonable chance to retake the Senate in 2010.

By: Triumph

Triumph — Thu, 31 Jan 2008 17:58:27 +0000

It is also money that B. Hussein received from jailed Arab extortionist Antonin Rezko.

By: yetanotherjohn

yetanotherjohn — Thu, 31 Jan 2008 17:57:45 +0000

Correct me if I am wrong, but all the democratic primaries have proportional delegate allocation. So losing 51% to 49% means you are probably no more than one or two delegates behind even though you "lost".

In contrast, several of the states in the Republican primaries are winner take all. So a 51% to 49% loss is just as bad for the second place person as a 99% to 1% loss.

So Obama just needs to stay close enough that you can get to the super delegates being the deciding factor. Then he makes his case to the super delegates.