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July 22, 2008

I’ll go with “Yes”, David

by AltHippo @ 5:13 pm. Filed under 2008 Elections

David Weigel on the Meowists, emphasis mine:

Is there any way of gauging how many PUMAs there are? Well, on June 14 Bower created a Facebook group for them. In a month and a week it’s grown to 456 members. Is it so small because Clinton’s salt-of-the-earth supporters don’t waste their time online? Well, no. The still-active Hillary Clinton for President group has more than 22,000 members, although it’s shedding dozens of them every day.

Are the PUMAs lying about their support, their numbers, or their fundraising just to get attention? We won’t know for sure until July’s fundraising numbers come out, as they can prove or disprove Bower’s Fox News claims. Bower, in another interview where he made the “$10 million” claim, said that PUMAs give in increments of $20.08 so “they know it’s from us.” Anyone want to bet that 50,000 Clinton donors materialized in a week in early July? A long holiday week, no less? If you do, I’ve got an account at IndyMac I want to sell you.

I’ve seen some pretty tin-foil hat stuff on the rivermalkin site, including a theory about how the DNC colluded with the Obama campaign to schedule the convention on the anniversary of MLK’s “I have a dream” speech. This, according to the sufferers of ODS, proves that Obama had been chosen before the primary season began, ostensibly to bring down the Clinton faction of the DNC.

Oi.

Here’s a much more straightforward conspiracy theory for you: that a small group of people took advantage of hard feelings on the part of Clinton supporters after the primary season to get attention. And, who knows, maybe a little cash.

That would explain something that’s always bothered me about the “divided government” folks among the PUMA’s. Even if they didn’t care about the Supreme Court make-up, or, say energy policy, environmental issues, or the de-Bushification of the Executive branch you’d think they’d care about accountability. To see investigations into wrong-doing by high-ups in the Bush 43 administration. Which will certainly not happen under a Republican. You’d think they’d want to see that as members of the Democratic party. Unless…

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