$86 Million in 2nd Qtr
THis will be a short diary.
According to Politico, Obama has raised $86 million in the 2nd quarter, shattering President Bush's record in 2004 of 50.1 million. Given the disappointment, all the negtive comments on here and all the people pledging not to give to the Obama 2012 campaign on contribute/volunteer in any fashion, I was getting the impression that fundraising was going to be problematic this time around. So much for lack of enthusiasm compared to 2008!
The average donation was $69 raised from 552,000 donors. This is split between Obama for America ($47 million) and the DNC ($38 million).
http://www.politico.com/...
BTW...the combined haul for the Republican candidates so far is $35 million.
6:14 AM PT: Writer from NRO Online is actually attempting to make the claim that Obama's fundraising actually "laggng" compared to 2008.
http://www.nationalreview.com/...