To Jrmapu @ 04/08/2008 20:37:08, you stated " So how come Obama has all that money? Remember 2 to 3 times more than Hillary. Sounds like he has quite a bit of explaining to do ".
One way Obama got money from rich donors is to take advantage of the tax law loopholes which prohibit candidate gets money directly from the big corporations, but allow the individual who are associated with the big oil companies to donate money to the candidate.. In spite of the big spending, Obama lost in OH and probably in PA too.
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Ron Klein, an uncommitted Florida superdelegate and a Democratic congressman from Boca Raton, said the state's congressional delegation is actively negotiating with both campaigns to work out a mutually acceptable formula for counting Florida's delegates. Klein waved off suggestions that Obama's campaign lacks an incentive to cooperate, saying both candidates recognize how important it is for the party that Florida's voters feel involved. He also maintained that counting the Florida delegates may have less of an impact on the dynamics of the race than people think. Based on the disputed election results in Florida, Clinton only netted 38 more delegates than Obama, he said, a relatively small gain out of the state's total haul of 212 delegates. "You have to make some adjustments because neither candidate campaigned here. And we understand that Senator Clinton had an advantage going into it if nobody campaigned," he said. "But even if you took one extreme, which is one gets 38 more than the other, it's still not that dramatically different [in terms of the overall race]."
While Clinton's operation insists that Florida and Michigan voters be heard, the campaign has dialed back its rhetoric in recent days. The Clinton team Wednesday unveiled a new ad attacking McCain, instead of Obama, on the economy. While it's doubtful that a sudden burst of magnanimity is fueling the change—last week, a NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll showed Hillary Clinton's positive rating had dipped to 37 percent, the lowest it has been since 2001—the shift comes as some superdelegates are growing more restless over the negative campaigning, the possibility of a convention feud and the effect both could have on the party come November.
Harold Ickes, the strong-willed party operative who is running Clinton's effort to round up superdelegates, said the media has exaggerated the threat of a convention fracas. "There's all this apocalyptic talk about a bloody convention, a raging fight over credentials—some reports have gone so far as to analogize the possibility of Chicago 1968," Ickes said. "This is just overwrought hype … I think this issue will be settled well before the convention. It may go to the credentials committee. But if I had to bet I'd bet against it."
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