By Leonard Doyle in Chicago
Hillary Clinton lent her own campaign $5m before this week’s Super Tuesday primaries, a further sign that the air is going out of her tyres. Clinton can well afford to lend the money - she's worth some $40m. This comes as she has been asking her supporters to to raise her $3m in three days.
The Clinton campaign raised $14m in January, and it is unclear if that amount includes the Clintons’ personal loan. Meanwhile the Obama camp reported last week that it raised $32m last month and is on track to bring in an astonishing $30m for February.
Unlike Clinton who has exhausted her wealthy donors, the so called "low hanging fruit" of an election campaign, Obama's donors give small amounts (only 3% have reached the $2,500 threshold for the primaries) so he can keep going back to them with emails requesting more money.
Even before all the Super Tuesday votes had been counted, he was already beaming advertisements to voters in Nebraska, Virginia, the District of Columbia, Maryland and Maine - the next round of primary and caucus states.
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