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Obama Bags $32 Million in January

The money is pouring in to Obama's coffers as reported by the HuffPost:

Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama raised $32 million in the single month of January, a whopping figure that has permitted the campaign to boost staff and extend advertising to states beyond the sweeping Feb. 5 contests, aides said Thursday.

Obama is also attacking the entire SuperTuesday field while Hillary is just going after half of it:

Obama is now advertising in 20 of the 22 states in play for next week's Super Tuesday and plans to begin advertising in seven more states that hold primaries or caucuses later in February. Rival Hillary Rodham Clinton is advertising in 12 Super Tuesday states, including her own home state of New York.

In crucial California, Rasmussen has the race very close:

Clinton: 43%
Obama: 40%
Edwards: 9%
Other: 4%
Not Sure: 4%
Margin of Error: 4%

Hopefully, those Edwards voters will soon get a clue that he has dropped out. With the number of Edwards voters likely to shrink, 4% undecided and a 4% margin of error the race is effectively a toss-up.

A Gallup national poll also shows the race tightening:

Hillary Clinton is leading Barack Obama by just 6 percentage points nationally in a new three-day Gallup tracking poll of the Democratic nomination race, 42%-36%.

"Obama's position has been strengthening on a day-by-day basis. As recently as Jan. 18-20, Clinton led Obama by 20 points," Gallup editor in chief Frank Newport reported.

One thing I'm not sure about is how these pollsters deal with absentee balloting. In California, a large number of voters (including myself) have already cast our ballots. Obama looks to be surging but obviously he can't change the minds of voters who have already cast their ballot for Hillary.

From the way things are trending I have a feeling that Obama would win if the campaign wasn't so frontloaded with all these states voting on SuperTuesday. As the public gets more familiar with Obama, his stock continues to rise. The opposite is happening with Hillary.

And where, oh where, is Bill? Can someone send out the St. Bernards?

Update: On DailyKos they point out that Obama in one month raised more than McCain raised in ALL of 2007.


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