Sen. Barack Obama’s presidential campaign announced Wednesday that it raised at least $25 million in the first quarter of 2007.
The total comes close to the $26 million raised by Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton’s campaign in the same time period and calls into question the New York Democrat’s status as her party’s front-runner in 2008.
Mystic prediction time: Hillary is out of the race before the first primaries.
There are plenty of Democrats who would prefer almost anybody but Hillary, for good reasons or bad.
Clinton was able to raise $26 million largely because she seemed like the inevitable candidate. But if Obama, who was just an Illinois state legislator a little over two years ago, can almost equal Clinton’s fundraising juggernaut, Hillary no longer looks inevitable. Those supporters who only want to be on-board with a winner — a substantial part of the Clinton constituency at this early stage of the game — are going to start looking at the other candidates. Watch for Clinton’s poll numbers to drop fairly significantly over the next few months.
Second mystic prediction: John Edwards will surge in the polls as supporters drift away from Hillary. This will be the first clear manifestation of the race issue in Obama’s candidacy — as Clinton’s fortunes fade, “pragmatists” will be looking for a credible alternative to Obama, fearing that the country isn’t ready for a black president.
I expect Edwards to be ahead of Clinton in the polls by the fourth of July. I make no prediction about Obama’s poll numbers.
If these predictions come true, remember you heard it here first.
If these predictions don’t come true, heh heh, it’s all a joke, see, about idiot pundits who make grand predictions based on the teeniest scraps of evidence. Boy, are those guys dumb, or what?
Spink Nogales | 05-Apr-07 at 11:27 am | Permalink
People who shy away from Obama are not simply unprepared for a black president. Obama is an unproven commodity at this point. Sure he looks good in a suit, but the quagmire that the current administration has submerged the nation into will require the next president to face challenges of an unprecedented nature. So, I am calling for the scientific community to band together with all disciplines of the known cloning technologies and regenerate Abraham Lincoln to run for President in the next election. And if they want to tweak the DNA a little bit and give Mr. Lincoln brown skin, or make him a woman, then I am okay with that. I’m ready.