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Beat Goes On: 50% of Democratic Donations Expected from Jewish Sources in 2008 ReportsThe Forward

Hillary the Favorite in Race for Jewish Donations
Biden, Obama Expected to Make Some Inroads

By E.J. Kessler
January 23, 2007

New York’s junior senator, Hillary Rodham Clinton, is expected to snare the lion’s share of the Jewish community’s substantial political donations in the race for the 2008 Democratic presidential nomination.

Democratic activists and operatives said Clinton will pull in large quantities of cash among Jewish donors not only because of what they described as her strong positions on Israel and domestic matters of interest to Jews, but also because of longtime ties with these activists dating back to her husband’s administration.

The haul is important: Strategists say that serious candidates will need to raise at least $50 million — and probably more like $100 million — by the end of the year. They say that money from Jewish donors constitutes about half the donations given to national Democratic candidates (an extremely large pot of gelt long coveted by the GOP). (….Full Article Here)

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