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Obama raises record 55 million dollars in February
Mar 7, 2008, 1:09 GMT
Washington - Democratic presidential hopeful Barack Obama on Thursday reported raising 55 million dollars in February, the highest ever amount of campaign donations recorded for a single month and 20 million dollars more than was reported last week by rival Hillary Clinton.
Obama's campaign said 45 million dollars were raised online, and more than 90 per cent were donations of 100 dollars or less. More than 1 million people have given money to date, the campaign said.
Obama won 11 straight contests during the money-raising month of February, but his momentum was stopped Tuesday when Clinton took three of four state primaries, including crucial contests in Ohio and Texas.
The two candidates are separated by only about 100 delegates, with some 3,000 already awarded in the series of state-by-state intra- party contests that have been running since early January.
Both Democratic candidates have consistently out-raised their Republican rivals since the race began in early 2007. John McCain, who captured the Republican nomination on Tuesday, reported raising only 12 million dollars in the month of February.
But while Senator McCain will now be able to focus exclusively on raising money and uniting the Republican Party, Senators Clinton and Obama will likely be spending at least the next month-and-a-half using precious funds on each other.
The Democratic nomination contest next moves to Wyoming on Saturday and Mississippi on Tuesday, before the delegate-rich state of Pennsylvania votes April 22.
A poll published Thursday showed both Democrats would beat McCain in a general election match-up. The Washington Post-ABC News poll showed Clinton with a 6 percentage point lead over McCain and Obama with a 12 percentage point lead.
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This is crazy to have to use this kind of money this way. Can you imagine what good the kind of money they spend on this crap could really do.
All he needed was voters...
A pity Barak has to spend it on the primary...
its hard to read you, you are all over the place, are you for or against Obama?
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I'm a conservative....Obama represents everything I reject: socialism, big government, internationalism, etc.
Negro has nothing to do with it.
'Negro has nothing to do with it.'
Who even uses the term 'negro' anymore? Did you just step out of 1952?
I meant to say Colored.
...I use negro all the time! In fact, I use all the slurs Negros use, fastidiously. This is because they made it OK, even fashionable, again.
Now, I do not own any blackness, I just lease and rent from time to time. I figure that, if comedians, hollywood, the press, etc., can use them, why not the rest of us?
Insensitive? Possibly, but if a negro call himself a negro, or worse, why is it wrong for others to do so? What makes it right for one person, and not for another?
'Colored'... why you wonder bread eating, bad dancing, Kenny G. listening, Clinton voting, starbucks drinking, NASCAR watching peckerwood.
I don't know what you think NAACP stands for.
I just thought of something; you must be a Negro and I've struck a cord. Sorry about that, it was unintentional.
you are the ugliest racist I ever come across, No one uses the term Negros or colored only if you want to insult someone, or look down, why do you, an eastern european person should have any opinion on the americans or their politics? Are you looking for a job as a reporter? You are a snub, a bigot and a shameful person, those are old words, no one made it a fad, its spoken among people of the same race and that is not accepted, why don't you come to americam and call the first person you see those names? As a reporter you should no better than stirring the pot with your ugliness, you Euro Trash.
think he's a racist. He's just calling a rose a rose, or a train a train, or a club a club, or a spade a spade. Nothing wrong with that. He does make some rather really stupid posts, but of course that doesn't make him wrong.
..I happen to live in the United States, and no, while these words may insult, and I'd have to ask who, THAT does not make anyone a racist.
What you ask of me is to accept a double standard. That, I'm afraid is all over. No ones' buying that old chestnut anymore. If Negros use the word Negro, it certainly stands to reason they do not object to it's use, only to those they think should not. People like me simply are not handing them the right to decide how we speak. We call this freedom of speech, but I do not expect liberals to embrace the 1st amendment when they seem determined to undermine the second, third, forth and so on...
Quit fearing words. There's not a word on this planet that will harm you.
I just f--king love the John Shaft post! Relax John...it's a new century...people f--king love black culture.
'you must be a Negro and I've struck a cord.'
I got your 'chord' right here, kracka.
Mr. Shaft. Gee you're intelligent.
Still though, it would be wrong to put Barack Hussein Obama in office. He's real dirty and so is his bitch .......er ho. Mr. Obama is just a real pretty guy; but you already know that you homo.
..they insult me like that all the time. It's not racist, it's just stupidity.
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soMar 7th, 2008 - 02:44:45
Almostas much as ron paul
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