Currently Senator Hillary Clinton is trailing Senator Barack Obama in the political campaign for the Democratic nominee for president. Obama’s campaign has figured out how to more successfully raise money, But Senator Clinton is starting to figure out the ropes very fast. At one point Clinton’s campaign did not have the sufficent funds to continue the process, so in an act of desperation, Clinton pulled $5 million from her personal funds to keep the process afloat. Many agree that this was a sign of fate for the Senator from New York. After that fundraising picked up dramatically, especially online. Senator Obama has successfully used the internet as a major contributor to the financial success of his fundraising. Clinton at her last campaign speech in Columbus, Ohio put an emphasis on her website, instead of thanking the large contributors as she normally does. This proved to be successful as Clinton raised $3 million dollars over the next 24 hours.
It shows how committed Senator Clinton is to her supporters and her political campaign for president as she took out a significant amount of money out of her personal funds to maintain her nomination status for 2008. This also shows the increased importance of the Internet as a fundraising utility. It seems as though the Internet plays a more and more important role in each of the progressing campaigns.
