Kerry has won in
Tennessee, he's at around 40% but there's a close fight for second, between Clark and Edwards, both around 25%. What that means, is Clark plus Edwards beats Kerry, but the TV media is only going to report the winner, not the result. There are calls all about the tube for Clark to pull out. Meanwhile, Clark has raised $144K since yesterday; and Dean, already in Wisconsin, has raised $76K since yesterday, just behind the frontrunner Kerry, who has raised $82K since yesterday.
It looks like it's on to Wisconsin for all four candidates. Kerry is taking a few days off, until Friday, he's gotta go raise some of that Torricelli money.
Update: On a follow-up from BushOut.TV:
Americans for Jobs" [the group, started in November, ran three anti-Howard Dean ads including one picturing Osama bin Laden] received $663,000 from 26 donors. The profile is not ``progressive." About two-thirds of the contributions were corporate, with two executives giving $100,000 each, and a third giving $50,000. Another $80,000 came from attorneys. The Torricelli for Senate Committee kicked in $50,000. Six labor unions gave $200,000. Expenditures, besides the half-million for television ads, included $40,000 for Jones' consultancy firm and $15,000 for Skadden, Arps.
OpenSecrets.org (via BushOut.TV) notes that Skadden Arps is the top contributor to Kerry's 2004 presidential campaign, and a top-five contributor of Kerry's career since 1989.
Margie Burns, the writer quoted by BushOut.TV above, in JRNL.com:
...let it still be said that the treatment Dean received is disgusting. Surely, the impact of the loathsome "Osama" ad was foreseeable. Photos of Osama bin Laden and Saddam Hussein, after all, were very effective against decorated Vietnam veteran Max Cleland, in Georgia.
Update II: According to the AP, it looks like Torricelli may have broken some more laws:
Former New Jersey Sen. Torricelli, currently raising money for front-runner Kerry, donated $50,000 from his Senate campaign fund to Jones' group.
Federal Election Commission spokesman Bob Biersack said it was "fuzzy" whether Torricelli's contribution was permissible under FEC rules. Donations to such groups are not included on an FEC list of permitted uses for campaign funds.