A significant number of Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton's top fund-raisers remain on the sidelines and unwilling to work for Senator Barack Obama, a nettlesome problem that appears to be contributing to the campaign's failure to keep pace with ambitious fund-raising goals it set for the general election. Full Story »
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This article is full of ambiguous sourcing and reporter opinion. It is not very informative, and it looks largely that some reporters were trying to find facts to back up a public perception of "simmering tensions" and "perceived snubs" between the Obama and Clinton supporters. However, the facts are not there. The timing of this article is interesting: is it attempting to deliver a scoop or hint at a prediction just prior to Hillary Clinton's speech, in case there were a huge Clinton revolt against Obama during the DNC roll call? To make this piece work, the reporters should have stuck to straight-on analysis of campaign finance records first. Then they should have taken these stats to sources knowledgeable about what these ... More »
Perceived snubs leading up to the convention have not helped. Only a handful of Clinton donors got rooms at the coveted Ritz-Carlton, where the biggest Obama fund-raisers ... More »
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