Obama: Another record haul
Posted: Monday, September 15, 2008 9:12 AM by Mark Murray
The most impressive part of Obama's August fundraising haul was not the $66 million he brought -- but rather the 500,000 new donors. In just ONE month. The New York Times says Obama “raised more money in August than any presidential candidate has ever recorded in a one-month period, with his campaign disclosing on Sunday that it collected $66 million and drew 500,000 first-time donors to his candidacy.”
Yet Politico adds that the “haul in August donations may set records but it's only a down payment on the huge sums the Democratic presidential nominee must continue to collect in order to compete through the Nov. 4 election… His announcement that he had $77 million in cash in the bank at the end of August came strikingly close to the roughly $85 million in taxpayer funds that Republican John McCain has to spend on the entire general election.”
The Washington Post: "On a range of major foreign policy issues over the past year, Bush has pursued strategies and actions very much along the lines of what Sen. Obama has advocated during his presidential race, according to the Illinois Democrat's campaign and many diplomatic and security experts."
Hillary Clinton stumped for Obama in Ohio Sunday and barely mentioned Palin by name. (Then again, the Obama folks don’t want this race to be about Palin, right?)
