May 6, 2007
· Filed under Hillary Clinton, campaign money, campaign strategy, donors, female voters, philanthropy
As Hillary continues to compete with Barack Obama in the campaign cash race, she has decided to focus more intensely on appealing to female voters. This Washington Post article by Matthew Mosk , sent to me by the lovely Ben, states that women usually contribute 27% of the money eventually raised in overall presidential elections.
In general, I think that women have been less numerous and less generous donors than men– I know that my coed prep school had a far larger endowment than my sister’s nearly identical single-sex prep school, and I have a feeling that this is true for many traditionally male vs. traditionally female colleges as well (although colleges currently do not allow statistics to be kept of donations given only by women).
So why do women give less money than men? And How will Hillary address this challenge?
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April 15, 2007
· Filed under Hillary Clinton, Hillary vs Obama, Obama, campaign money
This New York Times article from today says that Hillary is having a harder time getting the Democratic monetary support that she was counting on. Many thought that because she is married to Bill Clinton, she would be the candidate to whom his fans would naturally shift their support to. However, it seems that Barack Obama is gaining a lot of these votes instead of Hillary. This is reflected in the fact that Hillary has raised $5.7 million less that Obama during the primary season– many of Bill Clinton’s main fundraisers have drifted into his camp.
April 2, 2007
· Filed under Hillary Clinton, campaign money
Hillary’s campaign has manages to raise $26 million so far, which as this NYT article says, is thrice the amount any candidate has ever raised at this point in the race. The other democratic nominee hopefuls all trail her, with Obama being the only candidate who has not yet announced how much money he has raised. As the article mentions, raising this much money this early in the campaign could signal two very different things: Read the rest of this entry »
