By Martin Evans of Newsday
Hillary Rodham Clinton's presidential campaign has gathered an additional $27 million in campaign contributions over the past three months, but will finish behind rival Senator Barack Obama in the money-collecting sweepstakes, a key Clinton aide said.
"To put that figure in some perspective, it is more than any Democrat has ever raised in the second quarter of the "off" year," campaign aide Howard Wolfson said in an e-mailed message. "While that figure is record setting, we do expect Senator Obama to significantly outraise us this quarter."
Although Clinton has consistently led Obama in early polling, the freshman senator from Illinois - a virtual unknown before his "Audacity of Hope" keynote address at the 2004 Democratic National Convention in Boston - has more than held his own in his ability to raise campaign contributions, as he seeks to be come America's first black president.
Obama improved on his race for campaign cash over last quarter, his campaign announced Tuesday, and has now received money from nearly 250,000 people in the first six months of the year. The Obama campaign has not said how much it expects to tally by midnight Saturday, the next reporting deadline. But last quarter the campaign raked in $25.7 million, narrowly trailing Clinton's $26 million first-quarter haul.
Wolfson downplayed the fact that Clinton is expected to trail Obama in this year's second-quarter campaign donations.
"Bottom line is that both campaigns will raise a great deal of money and that we will have all the resources we need to compete and win," Wolfson said.
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Comments
!GOBAMA'08!
Posted by: Doug Zook | June 28, 2007 2:48 PM
Too bad that is the only thing he is expected to beat Hillary in. She has a at least a double digit lead in every single poll released and it gets even wider in the swing states. Love her or hate her she will be the Dem nominee.
Posted by: Vinny | June 28, 2007 2:57 PM
The Evans-Novak Report today stated, "When (Chicago lawyer William) Daley met Obama backers in Shanghai and Beijing, they told him they could raise a half-million dollars for the
senator's campaign." $500,000 from sources in Communist China? Shades of Hillary Clinton and Johnny Chung! And what is the quid pro quo this time?
In the Clinton era, it allegedly was the sale of satellite technology to Communist China. Oh, and when is the Tribune going to report on Obama's ties with Communist China?
Posted by: Anonymous | June 28, 2007 3:12 PM
Anonymous = RNC Troll
Posted by: Doug Zook | June 28, 2007 3:34 PM
Anonymous aka "Bruce",
I'm guessing that you don't want to talk about some of Fred Thompson's lobbying customers?
Posted by: John E | June 28, 2007 3:41 PM
Hey Vinny,
How many months away are the first primaries? Polls are not very relevant this far out.
Posted by: Marko | June 28, 2007 3:45 PM
"John E.", love the way you panic-stricken Commissars credit me with every posting that makes Dems look silly. But "anonymous" wasn't me. Make at least an effort to be accurate, won't you?
"Doug Zook" and "John E.", you guys (I assume you're actually two different people) post so much here--which Dem are you supporting in the presidential primaries?
Posted by: Bruce | June 28, 2007 5:08 PM
He can raise all the money he wants too,but the fact is,The American People will never elect a guy with the Muslim name of Barack "Hussein" Obama.
During W.W.2 do you nutty liberals think Americans would have voted for a Japanese American???
Oh,I forgot...F.D.R.(D)had all the Japanese Americans locked up in internement camps like cattle.
Paulo
Posted by: Paulo | June 28, 2007 5:28 PM
He can raise all the money he wants too,but the fact is,The American People will never elect a guy with the Muslim name of Barack "Hussein" Obama.
During W.W.2 do you nutty liberals think Americans would have voted for a Japanese American???
Oh,I forgot...F.D.R.(D)had all the Japanese Americans locked up in internement camps like cattle.
Paulo
Racists and Bigots. Money sucking corporate ass kissers. The Republican party must be so proud that they have no conscience and no vision. And coincidentally Paulo, I've read your comments for months but never responded to you. I never felt that your sheepish idiocy deserved the energy it takes for a keystroke, but this type of open racism and bigotry is not legal.
Ever heard of the Southern Poverty Law Center?
Posted by: Mrs. Jesus | June 29, 2007 1:41 AM
Paulo,
Can you ever add any substance to your comments instead of the racism and bigotry you spew? People like you make the world a less better place. You make me ill.
Posted by: Marko | June 29, 2007 10:49 AM