Hillary Clinton raised $26 Million from 50,000 donors.
Of those 50,000, "tens of thousands" are new donors. So, maybe 20,000 are new and 30,000 are old. Now, how many of those gave the full $4600? Well, there is this...
The former president has been the featured guest at a series of exclusive lunches and dinners, where attendees are asked to pony up $4,600 the maximum allowable contribution to his wife's campaign.
Hassan Nemazee, a New York financier and longtime Clinton fundraiser, hosted a dinner for about 100 guests Tuesday night with Bill Clinton the marquee attraction. People dined on beet salad and steak at Manhattan's swank Cipriani restaurant, and Clinton stayed past 11:30 p.m.
The event pulled in $500,000 for his wife's campaign.
Then, there is this...
LOS ANGELES -- Some of California's deep-pocketed Democratic donors will be out in force Saturday at a Beverly Hills fundraiser for party front-runner Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton. The campaign expects to raise at least $2 million.
Clinton's fundraiser is expected to draw 1,000 people to billionaire Ron Burkle's estate, with tickets starting at $2,300. A $4,600 donation includes a VIP reception. The host committee includes more than two dozen people, including producer Steve Bing, former California Gov. Gray Davis and investment banker Sim Farar.
Then, there is Iowa, Nevada, South Carolina, New Hampshire, and everywhere else she has been. Say 5-10 per state, that isn't out of the realm of possibility. So, could you say 5,000 people gave her the full amount? That would be 10% of all donors. If so, that means $11,500,000 of the $26 Million goes towards the general. that means about $14.5 for the primary.
To which I would respond....
Publicly, the Clinton campaign has declared a goal of $15 million, an amount campaign experts expect her to easily double when candidates report their totals for the first quarter ending March 31. After all, she has help from the man once called the fundraiser in chief _ former President Clinton.
So, she didn't meet the internal criteria. Maybe that explains why...
By not breaking down the amount available for the primaries, the Clinton camp made it impossible to make clear comparisons to past campaigns.
Anyway, as the numbers are crunched we will know.
EDIT: As I type this I found out the Edwards numbers.
Total $s=14 Million ($1 General)
Online $s=3,288,935
That means $13 million for the primary, versus, possibly, $14.5????
Yeah, if any of this crazy speculation I'm doing is real, Hillary should be in trouble on the news. If they have any fairness they should be talking about how she underperformed and how Edwards (and presumably Obama) overperformed.
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