Obama is (reportedly) up to 10,917 contributors in about 28 hours...the campaign asked for $25 per person, and the online form makes it harder to give less. Let's assume that those donations average about $40 a piece. That's almost a half a million dollars based on an online appeal that cost the campaign about $1000 (staff time) to write...

This is the value of having a huge contributor base of small donors who haven't maxed out...

When most of your contributor base is maxed out big wigs, you don't have much room for this kind of growth...

Will the media pick this up? A perfect storm for Obama would be the following:

1. The media covers the fact that Hillary is going negative (but not her actual attacks).

2. They then cover Obama's huge fundraising pull from tons of tiny donors

or....

3. They cover the highly scandalous story about overzealous volunteers debating people over the phone.

talk about defining "inexperience" down--JFK had been a Representative and Senator for 14 years when he ran for president, a bit more than Obama's three.

More of these clips Mike. Great contrast.

Jesus! I mean Ike didn't really do Nixon any favours, did he? And "as the decider", did I really hear that?!

This commercial was featured on "Mad Men"  as well...

After sustaining some rather mild attacks from fellow Dems and some minor jabs from Republicans, Hillary's unfavorable numbers hit 50% again, for a net favorability rating of -3%

www.usatoday.com/.../2007-12-03-politics-poll.htm

Also interesting - Rudy has dropped from a net favorability rating of +65% a year ago to a rating of +15%

Mccain has gone from +5% in June to +25% now...