NYT: Donors Linked to the Clintons Shift to Obama

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WASHINGTON, April 15 — As Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton has ramped up her presidential campaign, a number of fund-raisers long associated with her and her husband have shifted their loyalties to Senator Barack Obama.
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Among the biggest fund-raisers for Mr. Obama’s campaign are as many as a half dozen former guests of the Clinton White House. At least two are close enough to the Clintons to have slept in the Lincoln bedroom.

At minimum, a dozen were major fund-raisers for President Clinton. At least four worked in the administration and one, James Rubin, is the son of a former Clinton Treasury Secretary. About two dozen of the top Obama fund-raisers have contributed to Mrs. Clinton’s Senate campaigns or political action committee, some as recently as a few months ago.

A list of about 130 of Mr. Obama’s top fund-raisers, released by the campaign Sunday, showed the extent to which the Democratic Party establishment, once aligned with Mrs. Clinton, has drifted into her rival’s camp, lending the early stages of the Democratic primary campaign the feeling of family feud.

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/04/16/us/politics/16donate.html?_r=1&hp&oref=slogin

[Colobo]

1. Very good indeed! Gobama!

[IndianaGreen]

3. Unlike Hillary, Obama and Edwards are uniters, not polarizers

Hillary is a bad bet!

[ChairmanAgnostic]

2. how DARE you attack the presumptive winner? with facts, no less?

shame on you for confusing her guaranteed future inescapable true new and improved VICTORY with something as petty and pesky as facts.

boy, you want to risk some people starting to think for themselves, rather than assuming that Hillary is guarnateed to win?

[illinoisprogressive]

4. Alright! Obama is the one for our nominee.

[ripple]

5. Obama continues to exceed expectations

In addition to the larger donors, the crowds he's drawing and the number of overall donors(most of whom have yet to max out) are excellent indications of how he'll fare at the polls.

[BenDavid]

6. Listen folks, this Imus deal will not

stop the right wing of not playing dirty against Obama. I have nothing bad to say about Obama. If Obama wins - whoever wins the Democratic nomination, I'm behind him/her all the way. (That's a sentence you won't hear from most in here.)

But seriously, between Obama with two years experience and the only team to win back-to-back presidential campaigns since FDR, (the team that beat war hero Bush and war hero Dole), ...

who do you think the super-racist GOP wants to run against? Be honest with yourself. If Al Gore could not carry Tenn. then what makes you think Obama can. If Harold Ford Jr. cannot get enough votes to win the Senate race ( oh yes remember the ad with the white girl ) what makes you think Obama can win Tenn. or for that matter any southern state....

HRC, will win West Virgina, Missouri, and La and Ohio a few other red states. Obama will not....She will keep all the blue states from 04 but will pick up more red states.....

Let me ask a question. Explain to me like I am an 8 year old and tell me how HRC can be polarizing to democrats that support what all a democrat usually supports....and is she really polarizing to democrats or is that something you heard some right winger or the media say?

[blm]

9. Clinton wouldn't have beaten Poppy Bush if Dems hadn't been riding Bush's ass

for his entire term. And how did Clinton reciprocate? By KISSING Poppy Bush's ass throughout Bush2's first term.

[w4rma]

7. Good. (nt)

[JNelson6563]

8. I'm so glad it's so competitive

I want a real race, not a sweep. At this point it's anyone's game and Gore is still possibly a variable. Keeps it interesting.

Julie

[mtnsnake]

10. Very true

I mean how much would really get debated if any race was a runaway.

As far as the point being made in the OP, I don't think it's any surprise that some of Hillary's supporters would be choosing to support Obama. I don't think Hillary herself is at all surprised, and considering how popular Obama is, I think Hillary must be fairly satisfied with how things are going for her now with how much support she is still getting.

[Forkboy]

11. How many donors slept in the Lincoln Bedroom in that time?

It'll put the six who switched into better context.If it's 6 out 12 I'd say it's a big deal.If it's 6 out of a 100 not so big a deal.