Hillary Clinton Campaign Raising $2.5 BILLION In 2012, Barack Obama received 65,915,796 votes and spent $1.1 billion dollars to achieve the White House. According to the New York Times, the Hillary Camp seeks to raise $2.5 billion dollars, more than double Obamas 2012 total and what would amount to $37.92 per vote. America Rising calls it Clinton Inc., A $2.5 Billion Endeavor. That is if she actually could get the same number of votes as Obama. Since Mrs. Clinton announced her candidacy on Sunday, a barrage of negative publicity has surrounded her campaign regarding everything from criticizing the campaign logo, to the main thrust and message she is pushing. In the early months of the Democratic primary contest, Mrs. Clintons campaign hopes to capture some of the magic of her successful 2000 run for the Senate in New York, when she worked to show some of the common touch that had helped catapult her husband to the White House. Her governing principle in the 2000 campaign was demonstrating that she would work hard to earn every vote. Add to all of that the idea that her campaign will spend more than the GDP of some small countries in order to gain the White House and it is quite obvious that the money is not gone from politics. How the Clinton Camp is going to raise that kind of cash legally is another question. 