Hillary's disorganization and heavy spending pretty much did her in during the tussle with up-and-coming Barack Obama back in 2007.
But that was then; this is now. Have Hillary's bad habits been left behind? Is she doing a better job on campaign funding and are her campaign organizers doing a better job of running a tight, purposeful organization? Seems they're spending money like it's goin' out of style.
The details of her sprawling operation emerged this week in a newly filed campaign finance report. The documents showed that Clinton’s organization has spent nearly $19 million — or 40 percent of the $47 million it raised in its first quarter, a year and a half before the 2016 election ...
... The large expenditures cut against the image Clinton’s team has promoted of a lean organization that would not repeat the mistakes of what many considered her undisciplined campaign in 2008. And they raise questions about whether Clinton’s fundraising can keep pace with her rapid spending. ...WaPo
Looked at in terms of what she's achieving, things aren't as bad. Clinton campaign organizers are doing a better job in some ways.
Hillary needs all the support she can get: Bernie Sanders appears to be well organized and moving forward at a more impressive pace than expected.
A look at the top three contenders across both parties gives an interesting picture of how the 2016 campaign is stacking up in terms of money sources:
Clinton’s challenge is evident in the details of her contributors: $30.8 million came from those who gave the $2,700 maximum allowed in the primary, while just $8.1 million was from donors who gave $200 or less, according to an analysis by the nonpartisan Campaign Finance Institute.
That means 67 percent of her money came from maxed-out donors. At this point in the 2008 campaign, 61 percent of Clinton’s contributors had given the legal limit, while only 44 percent of Obama’s had done so. Obama’s reliance on a broad base of low-dollar donors proved to be a major advantage in his heated primary battle with Clinton, allowing him to return to them repeatedly for additional money as the race went on.
Clinton still has a larger proportion of low-dollar contributors than Republican contender Jeb Bush, who set a new record by raising 88 percent of his money in the last quarter from maxed-out donors. But Clinton does not come close to Sanders, who raised more than three-quarters of his money in the quarter from small donors, giving him a vast pool of supporters he can turn to repeatedly. ...WaPo
