Money, Money, Money
Weird. Someone at my station must have signed me up for emails from Barack Obama, because a missive from Obama just landed in my inbox. For whatever reason, the email was addressed to someone named "Todd". Who is this Todd guy? Anyway, Obama is sharing with supporters his record breaking $55 million take in February:
No campaign has ever raised this much in a single month in the history of presidential primaries. But more important than the total is how we did it -- more than 90% of donations were $100 or less, and more than 385,000 new donors in February pushed us past our goal of more than 1,000,000 people owning a piece of this campaign.Later in the email he pivots to a request for even more money. And below that email is a forwarded note from campaign manager David Plouffe, who discusses delegate math.
I'm curious why the campaign waited until today to drop the big fundraising number, because it's such an easy thing to do to distract the press. Had the campaign dropped the news on Monday, it would at least be a diversion from a bad 36 hours of press before the crucial Texas and Ohio primaries.
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