NPR: Clinton Camp Says It Raised $10 Million Since Pa.

Clinton Camp Says It Raised $10 Million Since Pa.

Using Sen. Hillary Clinton's 9-point victory in Pennsylvania to urge her supporters to pump more cash into her campaign, the Clinton camp says it is "on track" to raise $10 million since Tuesday, almost all of it off the Internet.

The New York Times reports that the money was desperately needed by the Clinton campaign.

While Mr. Obama had started April with more than $40 million, Mrs. Clinton's campaign was essentially broke, with millions of dollars in debt. Her dire financial straits had threatened to derail her campaign before her nine-point victory in Pennsylvania allowed her to make a fresh case to voters and party leaders that she would be the strongest Democratic presidential nominee.
The Clinton campaign was scrambling to milk the jump in contributions, transforming its home page to a donation page, something it had experimented with for several days last month with great success.

(There is no way to independently verify this yet.)

But there are also signs that Sen. Barack Obama commands a lot of financial support in the next two states with primaries, Indiana and North Carolina. The News Blog noted the other day that Obama had a 3-1 fundraising advantage in Indiana over Clinton.

And now the Raleigh News and Observer reports that Obama has a similar 3-1 fundraising advantage in North Carolina, receiving "$600,000 from North Carolinians in March, compared to just over $200,000 for Clinton. Obama got a big boost from the Triangle, particularly donors in Durham and Chapel Hill. He also tapped supporters of former N.C. Sen. John Edwards, who dropped his own presidential campaign in January."

8:47 AM ET | 04-24-2008 | permalink

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"Clinton Camp Says It Raised $10 Million Since Pa." is what your headline says. Then the first sentence says, "the Clinton camp says it is "on track" to raise $10 million since Tuesday". These are completely different statements. Which is real? Did they really say what?

We are getting more than sufficient highly spun "Clinton is winning" statements from the campaign without NPR adding puffery to the headlines.

Sent by Gary | 10:29 AM ET | 04-24-2008

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