The media is deliberately attempting to turn Obama's money advantage against him with Penn Voters.
As we know, when the "he is outspending her 4 or 5 to 1!" mantra is repeated over and over again (which it is), a voter's reflex is to think, He's not buying this election!
So the Clinton Camp talking points that Obama is outspending the Clinton campaign is what the MSM push (but somehow, according to Hillary supporters, the MSM is against Clinton....Doh, OK :eyes: )
The story is being pushed with this slant by most, if not all of the talking heads on the TeeVee as well as the press.
So the news is being massaged to insinuate that Obama is "buying the election"....although all that he is doing is getting people familiar with him, because he doesn't have the Name recognition or the party machinery advantage that Hillary does, but he does have millions of ordinary people that have donated to him.
If he wins, Hillary can say it was because of the money, and if he doesn't she can say that he didn't win despite outspending her greatly, and that really says a lot. Win win for Clinton in perception, although she isn't raising money (normally bad).
In other words, all of the sudden, raising a lot of campaign cash from ordinary citizens and actually spending it on advertising and organization makes you an elite buying an election, while having earned 109 Million dollars, having and giving to your own charitable organizationm and having a husband and your campaign manager who supports and profits from trade deals is good.
Up is down, and down is up in this election.......but suppositely, the media loves them some Barack (yeah...sure!) :eyes:
I'm writing to the media to straighten them out....because I'm tired of the skewed coverage to portray Hillary as the victim. Enough, already!
Clinton: Obama outspending us 4-1 in Pennsylvania
Officials from Sen. Hillary Clinton's campaign estimated Thursday that her rival for the Democratic presidential nomination, Sen. Barack Obama, is outspending her by a 4-1 ratio in Pennsylvania, ahead of the April 22 primary there.
The Clinton campaign also said that Pennsylvania, where the New York senator has held onto a comfortable lead in most polls, is a proving ground for Obama, given his massive effort in the Keystone State.
"If they fail to win there, they will have failed," said Howard Wolfson, a spokesman for the Clinton campaign.
http://www.marketwatch.com/news/story/clinton-obama-outspending-us-4-1/story.aspx?guid=%7B1A07F6C6-16D4-4563-AA24-7BC32FD63B66%7DObama's unprecedented Pennsylvania ad buy
PHILADELPHIA -- If, as has been widely predicted, Barack Obama loses Pennsylvania, it will not be for lack of effort.
Obama is currently spending $2.2 million per week on television here, over twice what Hillary Clinton is spending and an unprecedented ad buy in Pennsylvania, according to Democratic media consultant Neil Oxman, who is not working for a candiadte.
"Nobody has ever spent 2.2 million in this state: not Rendell, not Specter, not Casey, not Santorum, not Bush, not Kerry," said Oxman, naming the best-funded candidates to run statewide in recent years. "That's unbelievable."
http://www.boston.com/news/politics/politicalintelligence/2008/04/obamas_unpreced.htmlClinton Camp Feels Spent, and Outspent
Obama's immense cash flow -- he has raised more than $240 million to Clinton's $175 million -- allows him to compete as aggressively in the final primary contests as he did in the early days of the race. He is vastly outspending Clinton in Pennsylvania, with $3 million in television and radio ads, including a Spanish-language TV ad airing in the Philadelphia area, compared with an estimated $500,000 that Clinton is spending in the state, which will hold its primary on April 22.
In North Carolina, which will vote on May 6, the Obama campaign has opened 16 offices, including ones in smaller locales such as Hickory, Elizabeth City and Boone. Obama is spending $800,000 on the airwaves, and his team is making a strong push to register voters, with 22 training and local outreach sessions scheduled for yesterday alone.
In Indiana, which will also hold its primary on May 6, Obama has spent $1 million on television ads that have been airing for more than a week, and the campaign opened its 17th office there yesterday. Clinton has 12 offices in the state.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/04/03/AR2008040300407.html?nav=rss_politicsBarack Obama is vastly outspending Hillary Clinton so far on Pennsylvania's airwaves leading up to the crucial April 22 primary.By some counts, he is buying five times more air time than Clinton. Thus far, the TV ads have mostly been biographical. One features a snippet of his speech at the 2004 Democratic National Convention in Boston, where he burst on to the national stage, plus testimonials from a Republican and Democratic leader in the Illinois legislature about his record there.
The $2 million in ad buys could help partly explain why Obama, who is in the middle of a bus tour across the Keystone State, is closing the gap in the polls to the low double digits. Governor Ed Rendell, Clinton's biggest-name supporter in the state, predicted on CNN this afternoon that she would win -- but probably not by as big a margin.
http://wizbangblue.com/2008/03/31/obama-outspending-clinton-in-pa-5to1.php 
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