Barack Obama is the choice of free-agent donors

[babylonsister]

Barack Obama is the choice of free-agent donors
Obama has received twice as much money as Hillary Clinton has from donors who supported other candidates in the Democratic race.
By Dan Morain, Los Angeles Times Staff Writer
May 2, 2008


Campaign donors who previously backed also-ran Democratic candidates have adopted Sen. Barack Obama as their second choice, preferring Obama by a ratio of nearly 3 to 1 over Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton and giving him twice as much money.

Obama has collected more than $2 million to Clinton's $900,000 from donors who once backed former Sen. John Edwards and other Democrats who have dropped out, a Times analysis of Federal Election Commission records shows.

The money flowed in February and March from people like Kevin Jennings.

For the first time in his 44 years, Jennings has gotten involved in a national campaign. He volunteered for Edwards in South Carolina, and hosted him at his Manhattan apartment, raising more than $100,000. When Edwards quit the race, Jennings was devastated.

"It felt like a family member had died," Jennings said.

After a mourning period, Jennings, a former teacher and a founder of a group that tries to help schools protect gay and lesbian students from harassment, stepped back into the fray. Public attention focuses on which candidate attracts superdelegates and primary votes. But there also has been a far less public competition between Obama and Clinton for the moneyed backers of their former rivals.

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http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-donors2-2008may02,0,2411222.story

[aquart]

1. So a man found another man to back.

Goody.

[babylonsister]

2. If you're going to bother to comment, the least you could do is read

the article. You make yourself look pretty stinkin' ignorant, but we know that, don't we.

From the article: the Times analysis shows that roughly 3,000 donors to the Democrats who quit the race have switched to Obama

Why I took you off ignore I'll never know, but don't bother responding to any more of my posts; I won't be reading what you write.