Hillary Clinton reaffirmed her place as solid frontrunner with a sensational third quarter fundraising effort, drawing in $22 million for the primaries and another $5 mil for the general election, a total of $27 million raised in what has always been a "slow" quarter for political money.
John Whitesides reports for Reuters:
Her fundraising beat top rival Barack Obama, the first-term Illinois senator who raised $19 million in primary money and another $1 million in general election funds in the quarter that ended on Sunday.* * * * *
But Obama has shown his own signs of strength, raising more money than Clinton in the second financial quarter and building a list of more than 350,000 donors. The Clinton campaign reported adding 100,000 new donors during the quarter.
Obama nearly matched Clinton in primary fundraising in the third quarter, a spokesman said. He criticized Clinton's refusal to stop taking money from federal lobbyists.
"We have raised a historic $74.9 million in dollars available for primary spending, without transferring one cent from any other campaign fund and with no money from federal lobbyists or PACs," Obama spokesman Bill Burton said.
Read the rest at the link above. A little too much sour grapes from Obama, who accepts money from people who work for lobbyists and people whom the lobbyists represent, just not the lobbyists themselves. Why not just be gracious?
Whatever happened to the "politics of hope" anyway?
John Edwards led the also-rans with $7 million, just ahead of opting for federal matching funds and spending limits because he cannot compete with Hillary and Obama on a level field.
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Comments (3)
Nicholas von Hoffman has a ... (Below threshold)1. Posted by kim | October 3, 2007 7:10 AM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
Nicholas von Hoffman has a nice article in the Nation.
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1. Posted by kim | October 3, 2007 7:10 AM |
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Posted on October 3, 2007 07:10
2. Posted by LenS | October 3, 2007 7:59 PM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
Big deal. It just means that Hillary got the Chicoms and rich people looking for pardons to funnel some more cash to her campaign.
2. Posted by LenS | October 3, 2007 7:59 PM |
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Posted on October 3, 2007 19:59
3. Posted by kim | October 5, 2007 12:22 PM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
Oh, yes, I forgot. Chicoms are de minimis now. It's all Bizness we R in, niaow.
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3. Posted by kim | October 5, 2007 12:22 PM |
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Posted on October 5, 2007 12:22