Senator Barack Obama raised at least $32.5 million from April through June, he announced Sunday on his campaign Web site, attracting more than 258,000 contributors since entering the Democratic presidential race nearly six months ago.
This puts him approximately $10 million ahead of Sen. Hillary Clinton for the quarter, itself a big story, but the biggest may be how these two candidates for President -- an African-American and a Female-American -- are financially beating the pants off the leading white guys on the Republican side. From the Associated Press:
Among Republicans, former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney's campaign has said he will fall short of the $20.7 million raised in earlier in the year.
Rudy Giuliani was expected to exceed his first quarter total of $16 million. Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., was struggling to match the $13.8 million he took in during the first quarter.
To put it in perspective, these are roughly quadruple the numbers Democratic candidates raised during the same period in the 2004 election cycle.
My father-in-law, a registered but non-ideological Republican who considers himself socially liberal and fiscally conservative (and dislikes Mister Bush about as much as I do) just told me he believes the Democratic Primary is the real race for President, that whomever wins will beat any announced or potential Republican, and that he no longer has a problem voting for Hillary Clinton. While he feels Obama is a bit inexperienced for the office, he's not dead set against him, either.
A bellwether for November 2008?
2 comments:
Is there any way of determining whether some of the contributions to Obama's campaign are attributable to Karl Rove et al ?
I would think they'd want Hillary, who has higher negatives supposedly.
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