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Thread #108444   Message #2259979
Posted By: Ron Davies
11-Feb-08 - 08:38 PM
Thread Name: BS: Hillary Tapped Out???
Subject: RE: BS: Hillary Tapped Out???
The idea that Hillary is getting short of money is absurd. In fact anybody who believes it is setting themselves up for the big surprise that--shock!---she actually has plenty of money, and support, and endorsements, to fight on to the convention, and possibly "win" some big states along the way--again a meaningless phrase--since the contest is not for states, but delegates--(and "superdelegates"--the latter of which she is still definitely in the lead, thanks to her huge head start). The real news is that so far all her plans have come to nothing--she thought that even if there had been competition up to then, at least "Super Tuesday" would finish off any opponent--since nobody else could possibly compete on such a huge-- nationwide-- scale.

The amazing news continues to be that despite her early diligent collection of funds and endorsements, and cranking up the Democratic machine in each state, in state after state Obama has built a grass-roots organization--amazingly quickly----(utilizing, among other resources, the Net)--an organization which has not only challenged but smashed Hillary's tradition-bound machines.

For me the best symbol of this is still South Carolina, where her manager said she had the most powerful machine in the state--and two weeks later that machine was completely shattered.

It seems that this has been the pattern, not everywhere, but enough places that the contest has been totally transformed from the planned coronation.

But no one should ever think she has financial problems.   Rig's attempted parallel fails. John McCain had real problems and his campaign did almost run out of gas: money. Hillary has no worries on that score.