Fueled by a 65% rebound in visitors to his website, Barack Obama recently reported raising a near record $52 million during the month of June. This haul represented a significant boost from the $22 million he raised in May when he was still in a heated battle with Hillary Clinton for the Democratic nomination. While the total is indeed staggering, less reported was a recent Washington Post analysis that found that only $1.8 million (or 3.5%) of this sum was given by former Hillary Clinton donors.

Perhaps they are waiting for an olive branch vice presidential invitation. Or maybe, they are biding their time hoping Obama stumbles come November, paving the way for a Clinton resurrection in 2012. Whatever the underlying reason, it seems that Clinton’s most active supporters have yet to rally behind Obama.

The FaceTime chart below illustrates the degree to which the Democratic candidates have attracted the attention of voters throughout the race. The FaceTime metric quantifies the total amount of time voters spent online each month with candidates across their official website as well as their related sites on places such as MySpace, Facebook, YouTube, and Meetup.com. Even though Clinton ended her campaign on June 7th, for the month she still managed to grab 15% of Democratic FaceTime, while the remaining share went almost entirely to Obama.

Further, the chart below illustrates the degree to which Obama’s official website is attracting once active Hillary supporters (defined as those who made three or more website visits to HillaryClinton.com during the final two months of her candidacy). Through July 19th, Obama’s site had only managed to attract the attention of 11% of Clinton’s formerly active supporters.

In response, the Obama’s have recently ratcheted up their outreach to women, hoping to bring this large group of Clinton supporters into the fold. Of course Obama has proven himself to be a masterful organizer and fundraiser, able to raise millions at the drop of an email. With all Obama has going for him at this point in the race, and in lieu of all the baggage the GOP standard bearer (John McCain) carries, whether or not Clinton hold-outs fall in line may end up not really mattering come November.

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  1. Public Relations

    There is a world of difference among those who donated to the Clinton campaign and those who initially donated to Obama.

    Those who donated to Obama are younger idealists - those donating to Clinton expect something back if she would have been elected.

    Perhaps they do not see Obama as being for sale

    Or perhapsUS racism is so strong among the affluent donators that they would prefer to see McCain win - but do not want to support him openly because of their ties to the Democratic party.

    Sad state of affairs.

    Wonder how the Olympics outcomes will affect the presidential election

  2. DaveTheConservative

    Who cares about Obama and Hillary?

  3. charles

    Actually, websites were used also in our country by politicians to gain more supporters and funds. I was searching through myspace and friendster and was shocked that our politician turned social person. he posts his current works. Anyway, he was considered the youngest politician of our country now.

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  4. Patricia Smith

    The girls are constantly telling us that their disagreements on various subjects does not
    mean that they do not love and respect each other. Why can’t the comments that each one
    has, be said individually for a designated time period. It certainly would’t sound
    like argumentss and they would’nt be all talki ng at the same time, which drives everyone
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  5. Ling

    Maybe they’re not supporting Obama with tehir wallet, but they will supoort him with votes. If he got $52 million with only 11% support from about 1/2 of Democratic voters, then think about the enormous boost he’ll probably get when all these people start registering in the polls as Obama supporters.

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    I suspect they will wait and see what happens at the convention.

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