Money-saving opportunitiesClinton advisers said they were looking for opportunities to save money on campaign events in the coming primary states of West Virginia, Kentucky and Oregon. The advisers said events would be more frill-free, but they also said that the campaign was likely to go deeper into debt to vendors who design and produce her events.
On the bright side for Mrs. Clinton, West Virginia and Kentucky are not expensive media markets for advertising, but Mr. Obama has already begun broadcasting advertisements in those states.
After news broke that Mrs. Clinton had lent her campaign $5 million following the crush of states that voted on Feb. 5, the campaign brought in more than $4 million in 24 hours; and after Mrs. Clinton’s popular-vote victories in Ohio and Texas on March 4, the campaign collected more than $3 million. The Obama campaign often averaged more than $1 million a day online earlier in the year.
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