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L.A. Times: Hillary No Longer Front-Runner
Hillary Clinton is no longer the clear front-runner in the race for the Democratic presidential nomination in 2008 – and former Republican favorite John McCain has dropped to third in fund-raising among GOP candidates. "A year ago there was a clear Clinton scenario, a clear McCain scenario” for winning the nominations, Stuart Rothenberg, publisher of a nonpartisan campaign newsletter in Washington, told the Los Angeles Times. Clinton set a fund-raising record with $26 million in contributions in the first quarter of this year. But that figure barely surpassed the $25 million raised by opponent Barack Obama – and his money came from twice as many donors compared to Hillary. Clinton strategist Howard Wolfson played down concerns about Hillary losing the front-runner status, telling the Times: "I’ve never used that word. We focus on running our campaign. I’ll leave the prognostications to others.”
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Clinton now trails John Edwards in the polls in Iowa, the first caucus state.
On the Republican side, John McCain has raised $12.5 million for his campaign, but Mitt Romney has collected nearly $21 million and Rudolph Giuliani has received $15 million in donations.
Alan Abramowitz, a political science professor at Emory University, told the Times: "I don’t see a clear front-runner for the Republicans, simply because I think all of them have serious liabilities in terms of appealing to Republican primary voters.”
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