lol...nice catch

from bangalore, India.

they use British spellings....

Sorry, I was not responding to you. It's copied from my comment under another diary.

Is my math f*cked, or did Obama get $124 per donor?

That hardly seems like a fortune, though it might to someone in Punjab.

Well, Clinton leads in pretty much every category, but her lead is as strong (if not even stronger) in the "highest engaged" category.  Yes, she also leads in the "least engaged" category.  Where the others make some inroads is in the "somewhat engaged" category.  

It does make me wonder what percentage of these 'low info' voters actually vote?   I don't have the numbers and have not seen them if they are available.

The media did Dean in.  Get your facts straight.

Let's remember that the infamous Dean Scream happened AFTER the Iowa caucus vote.  So the point is true that, going into the Iowa Caucus, Dean had the most money, the biggest online organizaiton, and quite possibly the most high-profile endorsements, and he still lost.

My impression was that this loss came from a combination of factors (including other candiates, and the RWCM, targeting him), not the least of which was his own campaign being wildly disorganized.  Still, this does prove the point that the most money and largest organization are not in and of themselves sufficient to win.

My own 2 cents is that, after placing third in Iowa, Dean was done no matter what.  A large part of his argument was "I have all of these volunteers and money that that's going to mean more votes," and once Iowa showed he couldn't deliver a lot of the rationale for his candidacy (for people who weren't hard-core supporters) went away.

what happened to dean sucked. Yes, he didn't looked pre-packaged and "Presidential," and maybe he should have let a surrogate do the firing up, but he shouldn't have been portrayed as "crazy guy." The media probably had his mic plugged into a malt box that fed the audio and didn't pick up on the sound from the crowd.

However, it did make for a really funny Chappelle's Show skit

"we're going to california, to new mexico, we're going to cancun for spring break, and i'm gonna take my wife, bend her over and go BYEAAH!!!"

haha, it also makes fun of the john edwards "you know dick cheney has a lesbian daughter" comment during the debate. awkward, but chappelle makes it hilarious (not only is his daughter a lesbian, but his MOM's a lesbian, his SISTER's a lesbian...)

hilarious

Hillary is a disaster for Democrats up and down the ticket.

Sabato's piece, said even if Hillary wins, because of her style in 2010 she would definitely make it hard to hold onto congress.

shot at Hillary.

there' some tangential stuff maybe at Edwards but the media doesn't really care about him

She is playing it safe, playing not to lose. Obama needs to make the case against her. He hasn't done so yet.

Hillary at the top of the ticket instantly would put our House and Senate majorities at risk, and if we didn't lose them in 2008 we could very well lose them in 2010.

Because of his skin color he really has to (work twice as hard) to prove that he is electable.  The first balck president and all that.  There is a large voting bloc that will never ever support him.  He has to demonstrate that he can win despite the racists.

This is a significant challenge to his campaign--electability.  Once he has demonstrated convincingly that he can win the White House then he can go after Hillary.  There is a huge bloc of progressives and african americans who have not committed to Obama yet--they will support him in droves once he has proven that he can beat back the racists in this country and put together a winning coalition with dems, independants, and left leaning gop.

It is a smart strategy.  It is essential that he not be the progressive candidate or the black candidate or the maverick.  He has to win the middle and then work left.

Call it a general election strategy if you want.  It is like the movement thing--all semantics.

Given that Obama's campaign has organized the largest rallies and fundraisers across the country, and that they have had to simultaneously build their entire infrastructure fron the ground up over the last five months, I find your point a little difficult to comprehend.  

Obama just started adverstising in Iowa.  Watch and see if his numbers start to move again. Obama has the most potential for growth over the next six months.

Penn said that she had raised about $21 million for the primary, and $6 mil for the general. Obama has raised $31mil for the primary and another $1.5 mil for the general.

In the primary they basically are.

"And please don't talk about black issues, unless you are one..."

Preposterous and highly offensive.

  I guess I'll keep that in mind for future exchanges.   This level of discourse makes no sense to me, an attempt to "shut down" those you disagree with.  Not interested in the least in that type of stuff, so should be nobody who is interested in discussion rather than romper room "shouting."

easy slim ;)

I've been really active in AA politics around Houston - and my since, is that they are split right now - but will break towards Obama.  I've seen a lot of local primary races where the AA community appears to be split, and then break heavily toward the AA candidate shorty before the election - I think radio has a lot to do with this, and communication within churches, watch the pastors - Obama has held several events for people of faith, and this is why - Hillary isn't so goog at going into Black Churches (Bill could) with much success.  And, there are things Obama can talk openly about and Hillary can't surrounding race.  Obama's Cosby like language does, contrary to what some people say, play well with AA voters (maybe not the broader AA population like Russel Simmons) but with those who go to the polls it goes over very well - I have heard Black candadites use this language for years now... Lastly, Obama directly calling out black fathers is going to be the deal breaker I think - that group does not really vote - and his policy based plans to incrourage family will make a huge differince (this is one of the issues Hillary would have a hard time handling).

Michelle Obama, if you saw her in Harlem last week, does great in AA crowds - for some it may be a question if Barack is really part of the community, but there is no question about Michelle.  

Also a huge trait of AA voters is to claim that they are "independent" or "undecided" until the last week - at which point they vote 90% democratic.

I'm not Black, but have spent a lot of time working campaigns where I'm the only white person there - and for you to just pull a couple of quotes from this article is rediculous george.  White people saw a completely different conversation than the AA community thursday.  Hillary compared white to blacks - Obama talked at several points directly about issues black families face - it plays a lot differently...

Black academia has been slow to come to Obama - but the religous groups are starting to break hard toward him.  Churches, not Tavis smiley, Cornell West, Robert Taylor, are the life blood of the community...  

I think faith based initiatives could be a potential issue of importance this year... If they are done through interfaith councils I strongly support them - Interfaith councils, in some form or another, are groups in large cities (Saul Alinsky pioneered) they put out issue cards on canidates and do a lot of community building efforts.  Obama worked for an interfaith council while in Chicago.  I'm not sure if Hillary supports faith-based initiatives or not.

I had seen some info that suggested that the $27 Million was deliberately low-balled, that at the time the estimate was released, several indications became apparent that donations were much higher than initially pegged and asked-for by the so-called "Hillary-raisers," which (according to the insider article in the NY Times I linked to here) means that the haul of $27 Million seemed like a low-ball to understate real support.   I am personally thinking the official number will be at around $33 to $35 Million, but I am not sure how it divides in GE vs. primary numbers.     I guess we will see sometime this coming week.