The Obama campaign has been way outspending the Clinton campaigns in both Texas and Ohio.
...He has outspent Mrs. Clinton by nearly two to one in the two states. That is helping him eat deeply into double-digit leads she held in polls just weeks ago.
But after a month in which she raised $32 million — a remarkable amount, but still less than the $50 million or more brought in by Mr. Obama — Mrs. Clinton is fighting back.
Their expenditures, combined with a travel schedule that sent the two Democratic presidential candidates and their surrogates from border to border in Texas and Ohio, reflect the expectation that the voting this week may be climactic. Mrs. Clinton’s advisers have suggested that she will bow out of the race if she falters in either state, after 11 straight losses.
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For those of us who live in Texas, it's hard to avoid being impressed by the organization of the Obama campaign.
Mr. Obama’s financial advantage is helping him beyond the airwaves. His campaign flew 200 paid organizers from across the country to 10 campaign offices in Texas right after the Feb. 5 primaries, aides said, when some of Mrs. Clinton’s staff members were volunteering to work without pay.
Let's not forget that, in addition to raising more money from many more supporters, the Obama campaign appears to have managed its resources much better than the Clinton campaign. In Texas, Obama campaigners have turned up to respond to questions from voters in even the most un-Democratic, rural areas, while the Clinton campaign has resorted to what have amounted to be endless and repetitive nuisance phone calls from Hillary, suggesting how we can take over the caucuses for her and leaving us to assume that she prefers telling us what to do rather than listening to us. It's not reassuring to know that the Clinton money has been spent on hors d'oeuvres in Iowa and New York. So now the Clinton campaign is looking for cheap and clever alternatives. It's a bit surprising to learn that Fox is one of them.
Financial concerns also have played into a decision by Mrs. Clinton’s campaign to buy time on the Fox sports channel to broadcast across Texas a town-hall-style forum that she will hold Monday near Austin.
Her aides said the venue was chosen in part to reach white male voters who had moved steadily to Mr. Obama. But the bigger factor, they said, was because the channel was a relatively inexpensive outlet.
Speaking of Fox, the most recent Fox poll shows a healthy lead for Obama in Texas. In Ohio, curiously, both candidates seem to have lost momentum and the "not sure" voters hold sway.
