Sen. Hillary Clinton's campaign gobbled up more than $27M this quarter, her campaign said today.
It's an impressive sum befitting a frontrunner. A campaign spokesman said the finance team did not yet have a clear breakdown as to how much of that money was raised for the pre-nomination period, although the spokesman said the ratio would be similar to the first quarter, when Clinton raised roughly $20M for the primaries, about 6 million for the general election, and transferred about $10M from her Senate account.
That primary number is the key.
Howard Wolfson, the campaign's communications director, wrote in a memorandum posted to Clinton's website that "while that figure is record setting, we do expect Senator Obama to significantly outraise us this quarter."
The Clinton campaign released its 3rd quarter estimate on the same day that Obama's campaign told reporters it expected to recieve donations from more than 250,000 donors this fundraising period. By announcing their tally before the quarter offiically ends this weekend, Clinton's campaign may take the edge off news that Obama's campaign collected more money overall.
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A first term Senator starting from scratch, completely unknown as of 2 years ago versus a former first lady, sitting senator from one of the major donor pools in the country, with 16 years on the public stage, married to one of the most effective politicians in recent memory….
I’m no expert but if Obama out raises the Clinton machine (again, as far as primary money goes), and in the meantime has created a donor base of A QUARTER OF A MILLION PEOPLE, there is no taking the edge off!
No matter how the expectations game is played--that would be huge.
That’s all assuming it’s even true—maybe Clinton has significantly out raised Obama and played the expectations game masterfully?!
Saturday midnight is close and we’ll know soon enough.
Posted by lucy | June 28, 2007 12:45 PM