NPR: Clinton Fund Raising Rebounds in February

Clinton Fund Raising Rebounds in February

Hillary Clinton might be in trouble in the presidential race, but she's seems to be doing OK at the fund raising game.

NPR's David Greene confirmed earlier today that the Clinton camp has brought in $35 million so far in February. The Associated Press describes it as a remarkable recovery for her campaign after a weak January. And most of the money can be used in the presidential primaries, which is where she needed it most. (Clinton also had another $20 million on hand that can only be used in a general election.)

The money came from 300,000 donors, including 200,000 new donors, most of which came from the Internet

But ...

It's probably quite a bit behind what Sen. Barack Obama's campaign has raised this month. Although they wouldn't give out any figures, Obama spokesman Bill Burton did say "We've raised considerably more than that."

Several reports have speculated that the Obama campaign will come close to, or even surpass $50 million.

AP add that "That would make February an astounding fundraising month for the Democrats. At that rate, both candidates would break records for contestants in a primary fight."

5:00 PM ET | 02-28-2008 | permalink

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I understand that Hillary's recent fundraising accomplishments are considered a "comeback" and thus newsworthy. But I wonder why NPR has reported on Hillary's campaign announcing their 300,000 donors, without mentioning that just this week, Barack Obama's campaign reached 1,000,000 individual donors. There is a ticker on his official website (barackobama.com), and lately it has increased by up to 20,000 donors per DAY! The fact that Sen. Obama is not only consistently raising more money, but from 3 times as many people, is an important contrast.

Sent by Jennifer in Malta, NY | 8:50 PM ET | 02-28-2008

I heard the David Greene story on NPR today, and it sounded like he was reading a Clinton campaign press release, talking about how it showed her making such a comeback. Greene failed to mention that Obama is likely to have raised much more money from many more people. Greene failed to state how much of the money can be used in primaries and how much has to wait for the general election -- a big problem for Clinton since she has raised much of her money from large donations. Many of the reports on NPR seem to take the attitude that the Democratic race is about Clinton, and uncritically look at it from the point of view of her campaign. Are you being manipulated? Or has NPR decided it no longer has the obligation to provide the full story and just throwing at listeners selected information that the reporter wishes to tell us about? The post on this blog shows that better information is available than Greene gave, and I'm very disappointed with the handling of this.

Sent by Ken Shear | 3:58 AM ET | 02-29-2008

Guess the race is on and we the voters have fun, where else would this much money be spent on anything other than the nation budget

Sent by dunndh | 7:34 AM ET | 02-29-2008

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