Clinton-Obama cash gap looms large

By: Jeanne Cummings
The Politico
May 7, 2008

This year’s hard-fought Democratic primary may end where it started more than year ago – with the money race.

With six primaries to go, Barack Obama is flush with cash, sources say. Hillary Clinton is out of it, again, her campaign concedes.

Obama has led the money race throughout the primary season and he already has more offices in the upcoming primary states.

He is already advertising in several of them, including Oregon and Kentucky.

And now he will be able to assemble a stronger voter turnout operation in those places as well.

That doesn’t guarantee him success. Voter demographics have been a defining force in this year’s primary. From that perspective, West Virginia and Kentucky still favor Clinton because of her appeal to working class white voters.

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