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The Politico's Mike Allen and Jim Vanderhei wrote a thing about how Obama and Clinton are both urgently trying to figure out strategy, demeanor, deployment of funds, etc. as they continue their campaigns. They note that Obama raised a bunch of money in the first eight days of the year and leaked the figures to Drudge, because "The site is very well read, especially by the news media, and it's a good way to generate buzz and drive the political conversation."

What if the campaign had leaked the figure to The Politico, instead? Obviously The Politico is not as influential as Drudge, but what if it was? Would The Politico report it the same way? Or would there just be an article being like, "Obama made this much money in the first days of the campaign, sources within the campaign say"? If that were the case, would other papers, like the Observer, then take on the burden of deducing and interpreting the back story to that article's apperance in the Politico?