Obama Pulls In Over $30M In March, Hillary Nears $20M
By Justin Gardner | Related entries in 2008 Election, Barack, Democrats, Hillary, MoneyDown from the record he set in February, but it would have been impossible to keep that pace up.
Good news for Hillary too. Insiders say she raised nearly $20M, but check out the wording here from TIME:
Barack Obama raised more than $30 million in the month of March, a campaign official told TIME on Tuesday.Though the official would not provide an exact number, he did say, “The number starts with a three and we are still counting. It’s in the 30s.” [...]
As of Tuesday night, the Clinton campaign had not released its March totals. But one Clinton campaign adviser hinted that the New York senator’s total for the month will come close to $20 million. That estimate could not be independently confirmed.
However, there’s a lot of difference between raising $30M and some number that’s in the 30s. And since we know Hill’s people said “close to $20,” I’m speculating that Hill raised $19M and Obama raised $38M or double.
Here’s why this makes sense. He raised $55M in February, so to think his total dropped by $25M to right at $30M seems unrealistic to me. However, we can take a look at Hill’s numbers from Feb and work backwards. At that time she raised $36M, so a drop of $17M would put her at right around $19M. If Obama dropped the same $17M, he would be right at $38M. Basically, if fundraising is down, it would probably be a uniform drop.
In any event, we’ll have to wait and see.
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