Clinton Beats Obama in Cash Race
We were puzzled by the Post’s story today on how presidential maybe-could-be-wannabe Barack Obama has out-spent Hillary Rodham Clinton $500,000 to $400,000 in contributions to individual local Congressional candidates in ’06.
Technically true, but it misses the point. Clinton has chipped in $2.1 million to Chuck Schumer’s Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee for the current cycle. The DSCC which has used the cash to buy gobs of airtime in battleground races during the crucial last days of the campaign.
Obama, by comparison, has only given about $250,000 to the DSCC.
Add up the numbers and it brings the total to $2.5 million for Clinton vs. about $650,000 for Obama – a roughly fourfold advantage for the senator from New York.
Glenn Thrush
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