Via AP, from Yahoo, Barack Obama has broken the record for fund raising in a single month with over 66 million, he broke his own record by a whopping 11 million. What is also remarkable is that money was raised with the inclusion of 500,000 new donors.
Sen. Barack Obama’s presidential campaign announced Sunday that it raised $66 million in August, marking another record fundraising month for the Democrat. The August total was second to the $55 million Obama raised last February.
He reached the $66 million mark with help from more than a half million new donors.
Obama’s total for August was almost $20 million more than the $47 million Republican rival John McCain raised last month.
Ben Smith at Politico had some observations, which I immediately thought of upon reading about Obama’s recording setting fund raising numbers.
(This) demonstrates how the increasingly heated, nasty race has energized Obama’s fundraising and raises expectations that he will raise that much or more in each of the next two months.
McCain’s decision to turn his campaign to one full of outright lies and sleaziness has energized people to work harder for Obama. While McCain sees some short term benefits, similar to our own witness of the Kerry Healey campaign, at a certain point voters will simply be turned off by the tactics and question the character of the John McCain.
cadmium says
Obama’s supporters get pissed and donate more. Face it for every free Sarah Palin and Maverick plug McCain gets we have to pony up to fight back. If there were more tough interviewers like the women of the View it would cost us less to fight back
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af says
The Navy decided that John McCain was unfit for further command beyond the rank Commander, so he searched out another job that also payed a government salary. If the Navy didn’t want him to have higher command responsibility, why should we think he’s fit for Commander in Chief?
hoyapaul says
apparently the DNC raised $17.3M as well.
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p>Definitely a good haul, though really to make opting out of public financing worth it, the combined fundraising needs to be $100M+ over the next couple months, which I am confident they will do. (They need this extra $$$ to make up for the lost opportunity costs due to taking Obama-Biden off the trail to do increased fundraising).
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p>This should help quite a lot down the stretch. Obama and allies will be able to blanket the airwaves to a greater extent than the Republicans, when it is almost nearly always the reverse.
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p>An additional side benefit — McCain will need even more help money-wise, which draws further resources away from Republicans in down-ticket races. They are starting to put all their eggs in one basket.