KEY POINTS:
When it comes to campaign spending, Hillary Clinton's team appears to have forgotten her husband's theme song Don't Stop Thinking About Tomorrow.
Financial statements published by the campaign show that, in January, Clinton spent US$5m ($6.2m) paying her top consultants. Her team lavished US$25,000 ($31,000) on hotel rooms in Las Vegas ahead of the Nevada caucus.
And it spent almost US$100,000 ($124,000) on sandwiches and snow shovels for Iowa caucus-goers. Not only did she come in third in Iowa, it also did not snow.
The postmortems on her campaign are already beginning, even though she is still in contention.
Much scrutiny is likely to fall on her fundraising and spending habits, which at times looked like there was no tomorrow.
She went into January with a US$6m ( $7.4m) cash advantage over Barack Obama, but ended the month so far behind that she made a personal US$5m loan to herself.
Her communications director, Howard Wolfson, was paid US$270,000 in that time and her chief strategist Mark Penn pocketed $3.8m for himself and his company.
- INDEPENDENT
