If fundraising were an election, Barack Obama has won it by a landslide

Hillary Clinton's campaign is going bankrupt.

The presidential hopeful had to loan to the campaign $5 million of her own money in order to keep the campaign afloat. It's been reported also that all senior staffers have foregone their salaries. That supposedly includes Mark Penn's $4.2 million in consulting fees.

Well, when word got out, donors to the Obama campaign have gone bat-shit insane and have moneybombed the campaign's coffers with almost 7 million dollars. This just since February 5th, so that's little under 72 hours.

If each campaign contribution were considered representative of voting patterns, Barack Obama is beating Hillary Clinton and all the Republican nominee candidates COMBINED by a landslide.

Of course, the Clintonistas are in denial. So much so that bloggers like Taylor Marsh are now repeating the stupidity of Mark Penn and calling Hillary Clinton the underdog of the campaign.

Hillary Clinton. Underdog.

Weren't Billary "inevitable" just a month ago, especially after New Hampshire? The cognitive dissonance over that one would make a weaker person's head explode.

This is the worst kind of news for the Clintons campaign.

Hillary Clinton infamously admitted at YearlyKos last year that she would never forgo campaign contributions from lobbyists and now that decision shows to be the death of her campaign. Because the Mark Penn strategy was one of running as "The Inevitable", as the inclumbent who would out spend everybody by Super Tuesday, sweep up all the delegates and then ride the nomination wave into the convention. Once the day came and went and the numbers proved that not only is she tied in the popular vote with Obama but she is trailing in the delegate count, they have had to hit the panic button.

The Clintonistas went for the political and lobbying elites. They went for all the big donors, bundlers and fundraisers. Now, they've maxed out and have nowhere to go with their tin can. And they spent so much time catering to the rich people of the party that they forgot to create a grassroots base of donors.

Obama has raise almost $7 million dollars in 10, 20, 50 dollar donations. Hillary? She doesn't have that.

The best part of this? Barack Obama has raised more money than all the Republican candidates combined.

And so it goes to show.

If small donations where a trend for the elections, Obama would win the primaries and the general elections by a landslide.

As Baratunde would say ... HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!

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