The Hotline on Call‘s Marc Ambinder reports that Hillary Clinton has raised $26 million in the first quarter of this year. Yes, that is a record.
Marc goes on to explain why it is a “good number”, but “really, not so much.”
1- Reports indicate that Barack Obama raised… $21 million.
2- Some “worry that $26M is as good as it gets for Clinton.”
Obviously, it is a good number. The problem for Hillary is that everyone expected of her to break the Democratic record. She can only surprise people by underperforming. The situation is quite different, of course, for Barack Obama: if he did indeed raise $21 million that’s, as Marc calls it, “huge”. That is probably what people will talk about.
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