Obama vs. Clinton: Why They Have Equal Funds, But Unequal Poll Results

http://usliberals.about.com/b/a/257952.htm

Forget the outrageous headline hype and equally misleading campaign spin about 2008 fundraising.

The candidates' third quarter 2007 Federal Election Commission reports were filed last night, and the facts are in: Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton have raised exactly the same amount of campaign funds, to date.

As of September 30, 2007, and once accounting gimmicks have been eliminated, the Democratic candidates for the presidency have raised, to date:

* Barack Obama - $78,915,507
* Hillary Clinton - $78,615,215
* John Edwards - $29,935,179
* Bill Richardson - $18,461,022
* Chris Dodd - $8,761,581
* Joe Biden - $6,172,060
* Dennis Kucinich - $2,128,615

For full info, see Democratic 2008 Fundraising Statistics & Donor Info. It's an interesting read...

Money alone can't win a presidential campaign, but lack of money can certainly lose one.

Barring catastrophes or miracles, Richardson, Dodd, Biden and Kucinich simply don't have the funds to compete in the 2008 Democratic race for the presidential nomination.

The Edwards Campaign: Crippled, But Not Dead
John Edwards can barely keep pace with Clinton and Obama. Having generated only 37% of funds raised by either of the top two candidates, Edwards recently relented, and agreed to accept public campaign financing, which means that he legally may not spend more than $50 million on his primary campaigns.... considerably less than Obama and Clinton.

FULL story at link.

only primary voters from last election have been sampled. Obama is being supported by people who did not vote in the last primary, like me, who are planning on doing so for him in this one.
Ignore the polls as there is alot of new people getting involved and look at the state and the ground support.

who didn't vote last time? About as reliable as the cable repair guy.

but the fact that she worked for a decade for Arthur Andersen tells me all I want to know.

DLC corporate shill pretending to be a progressive - just like Hillary.

People know her much more, so she'll win polls of random people. When it comes down to vote, we'll see how all the candidates bridge the awareness gap.

its the content of the ads and the popularity of the candidate that counts. So Hillary must be more popular than Obama. What are you going to do about that. You have trashed her on this journal form dawn to dust and it hasn't changed peoples minds. In fact they more you spew the crap the more people go over the Hillary..keep it up you republicans.