Reply #27: Well, obviously the "hard working blue collar white people" aren't supporting Hillary either.... [View All]

[Tarheel_Dem]

Short of cash, Clinton is forced to cut spending

No-frills events eyed ahead of next primaries as campaign debts grow

PATRICK HEALY and MICHAEL LUO
updated 5:10 a.m. ET, Fri., May. 9, 2008

The once-formidable fund-raising machine of Bill and Hillary Rodham Clinton has begun to sputter at the worst possible moment for Mrs. Clinton’s presidential campaign, Clinton advisers and donors said Thursday, with spending curtailed on political events and advertising as Mrs. Clinton seeks to compete in the last six nominating contests.

Mrs. Clinton’s diminished political momentum, following Tuesday’s loss in the North Carolina primary and her narrow victory in Indiana, appears to have had a dampening effect on her fund-raising, aides said, increasing the likelihood that Mrs. Clinton will lend her campaign more of her own money beyond the $11 million she has already provided.

Clinton advisers said Mrs. Clinton was committed to spending more of her own cash on the campaign if necessary, although they spoke optimistically about a rise in fund-raising if she prevails in Tuesday’s primary in West Virginia.

The campaign is clearly running low on cash, although advisers would not say how much money — or how little — Mrs. Clinton currently has. The campaign had started April with over $10 million in unpaid debts, and Mrs. Clinton was vastly outspent by Senator Barack Obama in North Carolina and Indiana.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/24533370/

When people believe in your vision, no matter how hard they work, or the color of their collar, they put up or shut up. Which is why Obama is winning by every metric imaginable.