This is interesting. Clearly the Clinton camp is feeling pretty threatened by the recent impromptu turkee-gathering efforts undertaken by the netroots.
Their angle? "Obama has raised a lot more money because he has MoveOn.org helping him out." The problem with this claim? It isn't even close to being true.
more after the jump...
Josh Micah Marshall from over at TPM::
A spokesperson for MoveOn, which is backing Obama, just confirmed to me that none of the more than $7 million that the Obama campaign has raised since Super Tuesday came from the group's fundraising efforts.
"The numbers announced by the Obama campaign don't include any fundraising MoveOn has done on their behalf," MoveOn communications director Ilyse Hogue says.
This appears to put a crimp in the Hillary campaign's argument -- in terms of this $7 million, at least -- that their lag in fundraising is partly due to the fact that they're not just up against the Obama camp, but MoveOn as well.
MoveOn is in fact in the midst of a fundraising drive for Obama, and the group tells me that they'll be releasing the totals raised for him this afternoon -- which means still more money flowing Obama's way today. So in the broader sense, Camp Hillary is right -- they are up against Obama and MoveOn, but given that these numbers are broken out separately, it's hard to see how this can be used to explain away her lower numbers.
Once again, another concerted attempt by the Clinton campaign to minimize and belittle the efforts of Obama supporters. I hope you'll join me in sending a message to the Clinton camp with our wallets, I'm in for at least another $100 today. Let's get it done.
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