IMMEDIATELY after the Pennsylvania primary, Hillary Clinton raised $10 million (or something) and told us all about it. Terry McAuliffe, her campaign chairman, sent e-mail messages trumpeting the good news about new money and new donors. The campai
gn had momentum, and it wanted to tell the world all about it.
Today's e-mail was almost funereal in comparison. Hillary defensively restated her case for sticking around for the final 28 days of voting, perhaps dimly aware of the growing chorus of calls for her to drop out (those are mighty strong earplugs she wears). There was no celebration.
Meanwhile Obama's campaign manager David Plouffe sent an e-mail cataloguing Clinton's loans to her own campaign and called upon Obama supporters to donate once again. "We need to show that the voices of more than 1.5 million ordinary people donating whatever they can afford are more powerful than one person giving more than $11 million to their own campaign."
In these two e-mails we see two campaigns going in vastly different directions. One is jubilant and confident, the other fighting for a reason to keep on keeping on.
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