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Jamie Dupree's Washington Insider

Posted: 8:26 p.m. Wednesday, Feb. 27, 2008

Obama Goes Over The One Million Mark 

By Jamie Dupree

When the headline says that "Obama Goes Over The One Million Mark," what comes to mind immediately?  The answer is that's how many people have now contributed to his campaign.

The average donation according to campaign manager David Plouffe is just over $100.

What that really means is that Obama has an amazing fund raising base that he can go back to for more small dollar donations.  Thousands of his donors are not "maxed out" as the saying goes.

So they can keep giving - even if it is only $10, $20 or $50 a shot.

Those kind of numbers have made an impression on many in the Democratic Party, like Joe Trippi, who ran Howard Dean's 2004 campaign, and was a senior adviser for the John Edwards 2008 race.

"The Obama campaign is something just unbelievable," Trippi said at a recent political forum.

Obama has raised much more money than Hillary Clinton since 2008 began, bringing in $36 million in January, while Clinton raised about a third of that.

"On money and organization, they're (the Clinton campaign) getting totally beat in this," said Trippi.

"I'm not saying today that the Clinton campaign is finished," added Trippi, but "I do not understand why the Clinton campaign ran the campaign they ran."

Trippi argues while Obama has focused on building a grass roots organization from the bottom up, the Clinton Camp has been focused on the "top-down."

"It is potentially "the" biggest blunder that I've ever seen." said Trippi, who argues Hillary Clinton could have won a "change" campaign from the grass roots like Obama.

 

 

 

 

 

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