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Clinton Finally Figures Out the Internet

Posted Mar 22, 08 2:29 PM CDT in Politics 

(Newser) – Hillary Clinton is suddenly raking in donations over the Internet, the New York Times reports. Clinton took in $30 million online in February, and looks on pace for similar figures in March. That may pale before the $45 million the webizens bestowed upon Barack Obama, but it’s a landmark for Clinton, whose online pull had previously topped out at $8 million.

By now, Clinton has mostly exhausted the network of big-money donors her husband helped assemble, so she was in desperate need of a second revenue stream. Her camp has long held that Obama’s younger supporters are simply more web-savvy than Clinton’s older base. But once the campaign began focusing on the web—increasing e-mail donation pleas, for example—the money followed.

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Supporters of Democratic presidential hopeful Hillary Rodham Clinton cheer during a campaign rally in Evansville, Ind., Thursday, March 20, 2008.   (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)
Clinton campaign volunteer Sue Castner poses with a photo of herself, husband Mark Kaltenbach and President Bill Clinton on the computer at her home office in Portland, Ore., Wednesday, Feb. 20, 2008....   (AP Photo/Don Ryan)
Democratic presidential hopeful, Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, D-N.Y., reacts to supporters' cheers during a campaign rally in Evansville, Ind., Thursday, March 20, 2008.   (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)
Democratic presidential hopeful, Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, D-N.Y., campaigns at a town hall meeting in Anderson, Ind., Thursday, March 20, 2008.   (AP Photo/Michael Conroy)
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