Reporter Silla Brush brings us this item:
Fundraisers for former Sen. John Edwards are pumped up by their fundraising and say that the campaign finance reports due out Sunday will show Edwards did well even in Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton's home turf state of New York. One Edwards fundraiser said Clinton is expected to raise $7 million in New York, Sen. Barack Obama $3.5 million, and Edwards roughly $3 million. "That’s surprising," says one Edwards fundraiser. "Obama and Clinton didn’t get half the Democratic money in North Carolina. And in fariness Edwards and Clinton didn’t get half the money in Illinois." He said the general sentiment among Democratic donors is that if they've decided to donate to Edwards and Obama they've made a conscious decision not to give money for Clinton.
"You have made a decision against Ms. Clinton, whom we’ve known for a very long time and we’ve made a choice, each of us, that we would like Edwards or Obama," he said. He also suggested that the bond with Edwards and Obama is stronger than with Clinton. "If you write a check to John Edwards, you want him and him alone to be the president …That's like glue." But donors who have given to Clinton have and will give to other candidates and, he suggested, the link is just not as strong. "I just know in New York that’s not how her money thinks. If you get a call from the president of the U.S. to support his wife, you do it."
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