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Clinton’s Cash Crunch Leads Campaign to “Violate the Spirit of Campaign Finance Reform”

2/6/08, 10:38 pm EST

(Excuse me for being late to this party; I was on a plane all day.)

It seems that the Clinton campaign has hit the cash skids. Top advisers are skipping a month’s pay, and she and Bill have tapped into their their personal post-presidential kitty for an initial loan of $5 million. Already, folks are speculating that loan could balloon much higher.
Obama’s campaign has wasted no time in using this Romneyesque move as a fundraising tool. And an effective one to boot. The campaign sent out an email seeking to raise $5 million today. They’re already at $5.2 million. Scratch that, since I started writing this post they’re already up to $5.5 million.

The campaign may just have hit that self-sustaining sweetspot so mythologized by Joe Trippi, wherein a movement campaign pulls in more money every day by dint of little more than momentum. Certainly, it doesn’t hurt that MoveOn is now raising funds for Obama too.
Bonus fun from via Ben Smith at Politico: In Iowa earlier this season, Bill Clinton said such self-financing by candidates “would clearly violate the spirit of campaign finance reform.”

Hillary is now appealing to donors to help her raise $3 million in three days. Gee, with that kind of cash, she could almost afford her pricey pollster pal Mark Penn.


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Jed Clampett | 2/7/2008, 1:34 am EST

By Jove, I think he fixed it!!

Jed Clampett | 2/7/2008, 1:48 am EST

It’s confirmed man, the problem is in the cookies and how they are being handled… Unless RS is merely trying to keep some of us from posting so much and it’s working just like they want it to.

Jed Clampett | 2/7/2008, 2:21 am EST

The problem is with advertiser cookies and how they interact with the site. If you can and know how, add these to your firewall as restricted sites…
ad.yieldmanager.com

sdc.brightcove.com
questionm arket.com
atdmt.com
Those seem to be the main offenders, once those cookies get on your system, it starts doing funny stuff. Good luck to us all, let’s hope the ‘SUPERDELEGATES’ will do the will of the people… yea right!! We’re about to find out just how free and fair elections really are in america.Don’t hold your breath.

Ben Schiendelman | 2/7/2008, 2:55 am EST

As of 11:54 pm PST, I’m seeing just over $6.5 million raised by Obama.

Laura Roslin | 2/7/2008, 2:57 am EST

Since Feb 5th, Obama supporters have donated 6.5 Million.

“The Clinton infusion of $5 million — and there are reports it could end up being as much as $20 million — will give them huge resources for the next set of primaries and caucuses.”

Jed Clampett | 2/7/2008, 11:37 am EST

Here’s how to beat it. close all browsers. Go to Settings — control panel — internet settings and delete all cookies and offline content. Then click on the security tab and add the sites below to the restricted list. The problem seems to be with access the cookie is trying to make which has been blocked by a MS patch. Clean off all those cookies except the ones where you have passwords stored.

Anonymous | 2/7/2008, 3:22 pm EST

an interesting little tidbit. If you post as anonymous, the national affairs cookie doesn’t mess you up. You still have to click past 3 proxy errors to make the post, but it posts. RS is doing some creative programming in the background. I wonder if it is against any laws to surreptitiously prevent someone from accessing the site.

angie | 2/7/2008, 3:40 pm EST

That’s an amazing feat for obama. (I’m personally a ron paul guy). But what I have been noticing is that the more hillary cries, plays victim, or pulls moves like fund her own campaige, the more turned off people become. And the more momentum it would give to obama supporters. She has made a lot of bad moves in this campaigne and have continued to do so. I just hope people won’t continue to be blinded by this. Thanks for the fun post.

DirtyDennis | 2/7/2008, 6:38 pm EST

Jed,

So sad to see a good site die.

DirtyDennis | 2/7/2008, 6:39 pm EST

Unless, of course, the intent is to get rid of thee and me. Which it’s doing a good job of.

And of Uncle Mac.
And of Word.
And of Let Them Eat Cake.
And Coach?

Anonymous | 2/7/2008, 7:10 pm EST

(jed clampett)

leave the name option blank when you post. remove the nationalaffairs cookie.
For now, put your name in parenthesis in the text of the comment for identity and post away. should clear up all your problems on this site. Just sorry programming. Probably outsourced to the Muslim part of india like most of our programming jobs are doing.

Anonymous | 2/8/2008, 2:13 am EST

Yay, so now the same people can continue posting the same tripe they’ve posted for the past year!

That, and Tim’s lame posts are why this is dying.

DirtyDennis | 2/8/2008, 10:55 am EST

And your response is to comment negatively? Why not try contributing in an effort to elevate the discourse? There will ALWAYS be jerks with their throw-away BS, but look for those that actually want a discourse and engage them.

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