Obama raises $52 million in June. Wow.
$52 million. Wow.
Some observations.
1) The McCain campaign was pretending to be ecstatic over $22 million a couple days ago. (They are also trying to get the media to include the DNC/RNC in the reported totals so that they can use their giant donors giving $70,000 to appear to narrow the gap. See here.)
2) The WSJ made a report last week that the number was going to be $30 million. (Were they burned by a source in the McCain campaign?)
3) The Obama campaign seemed to be spending their time on large fundraisers this month, but the average donation is still $68.
4) How much of this is Clinton donors? It really wasn't until the turn of the month that Obama and Clinton began their co-fundraising in earnest, so how many Clinton donors show up in these totals?
5) $52 million is probably ahead of pace for their $300 million goal. (You gotta figure fundraising only goes up from here.)
Later: (CNN) "Obama's campaign now has $72 million cash on hand..." (ThePage says campaign plus DNC is $72 million.)
Some observations.
1) The McCain campaign was pretending to be ecstatic over $22 million a couple days ago. (They are also trying to get the media to include the DNC/RNC in the reported totals so that they can use their giant donors giving $70,000 to appear to narrow the gap. See here.)
2) The WSJ made a report last week that the number was going to be $30 million. (Were they burned by a source in the McCain campaign?)
3) The Obama campaign seemed to be spending their time on large fundraisers this month, but the average donation is still $68.
4) How much of this is Clinton donors? It really wasn't until the turn of the month that Obama and Clinton began their co-fundraising in earnest, so how many Clinton donors show up in these totals?
5) $52 million is probably ahead of pace for their $300 million goal. (You gotta figure fundraising only goes up from here.)
Later: (CNN) "Obama's campaign now has $72 million cash on hand..." (ThePage says campaign plus DNC is $72 million.)
posted by mikevotes at
7:08 AM
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"2) The WSJ made a report last week that the number was going to be $30 million. (Were they burned by a source in the McCain campaign?)"
Or a source in the Obama campaign, low-balling for effect?
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-epm, at 9:16 AM
Maybe, but the WSJ would have been burned the same day because the Obama camp came out rejecting the story, so I doubt it.
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mikevotes, at 10:54 AM
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