Obama has led in all fundraising statistics. Why is he not ahead in the polls. Any explanation for this?

Question

I don't understand why he gets all the money but not all the thumbs up? I was thinking that somebody won't give you his or her money if they won't vote for you? Am I right?

Answer 1

Because the polls are taken from average Americans who don't know much about all of the candidates; People giving money have already researched candidates and are more knowledgeable about all of the candidates running.

If the polls were only taken by educated voters the results would be different.

Answer 2

A couple of explanations:

1) he's new and exciting to a lot of people who are generous with their money. If fundraising stats meant anything the year before an election, Howard Dean would have been the Dem nominee in 2004, Phil Gramm the Repub nominee in 1996, on and on.

2) Part of how he's reaching those fundraising numbers is by charging people for coming to his rallies, which is perfectly legal, but also a little deceptive. A person could attend a rally to hear what he has to say without any intention of voting for him.

3) He has not elaborated any sort of vision past a basic change message, and has seemed out of his depth in the debates.

4) Lots of Democrats have real questions about whether he is, in fact, electable. Bear in mind that African American candidates have only won 5 statewide top of the ticket elections since the reconstruction, 2 in Illinois, 2 in Mass and 1 in Virginia. If the most important thing to 2008 primary voters is winning the election, and 40% of the primary voters determine that he is not electable in the general election, he will not get the nomination.

Answer 3

Ron Paul became into way up interior the boards before great Tuesday and asserting something against him became into seen heresy before this 365 days. wager the place he's now? Yup, he's on the backside of the stack. the ethical of the story - the boards do no longer characterize the will of the yankee human beings. And thank the powers for that!

Answer 4

Also, from an economic analysis viewpoint, funds are a poor way to judge how well a candidate is doing. No matter how much money a person can donate, they only have one vote. Higher funds generally only affect races within a couple percentage points.

Answer 5

Well for starters, you have to look at who has contributed. Obama, has raised his money from the many and not the few like most other candidates. That in itself is a strong poll for him.

However, just because you have more cash, doesn't mean people like you more. Look at Bill Gates he is the 2nd richest person in the world, and how many people can't stand him.

I do believe that it is just a matter of timing and that Mrs. Clinton is going to have it handed to her by Obama, and he will get the Democratic Nomination.

Answer 6

Only the wealthiest donors like him...like all of the kooks in Hollywood. A lot of people don't think he's qualified because he's not got a lot of legislative experience. He's just charismatic, which is all that matters to the Democrats. Who admires charisma more than anything? Loopy celebrities who are full of themselves!

Answer 7

I think there are more people giving money to Obama than are participating in polls.

Nothing in politics seems to make sense anymore does it?

Answer 8

Money and votes are entirely different things. One can have the majority of voters but still have those voters being reluctant to give you their money, or have very few voters yet those few contribute much.

Answer 9

It is still early in the election cycle. A lot of people are not even paying attention yet. Hillary has a lot of name recognition. I am not saying Obama is going to catch her, just saying it is too early to count anyone out.

Answer 10

He is just rallying the troops for Clinton, he is a giant fund raising machine for her, he will not be on the ticket anywhere, .....this is a political conspiracy to get Clinton elected, because Omaba will turn all his troops to support Clinton.