The Clinton campaign has been getting a bunch of media coverage for raising the biggest campaign war chest so far. Too bad it’s all a bunch of fudged numbers. Lies, dang lies and campaign finance . . . They all know the press will run with the numbers, so the bigger the number, the better the press coverage. It’s what we call the news.
Of the $26 million Clinton has raised in the first quarter of 2007 for her presidential campaign, approximately $20 million is for use in the primaries and caucuses, sources tell ABC News.
This is an example of how the numbers get fudged for press coverage. Clinton can’t use the other $6 million unless she wins the primary election.
So for now. . .
Barack Obama has $23.5 million for the Democrat primary. Hillary Clinton has $20 million. Mitt Romney is getting a big boost in the press because of the $21 million he raised.
The Real Question
What amount of Romney’s money can be used in the primary election, and is it actually more than any other candidate?
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Actually, all of Romney’s money can be spent in the primary, including the $2.35M he loaned to himself for startup costs in the first days of his candidacy, which in effect brings the total to $23M. He’s already spent half of that, but the half he has left is still more than the record $8.9M Al Gore raised in the first three months of 1999.
Romney has won the first major round of PR since the simple fact that he has raised the most on the GOP side will increase the amount of free publicity he receives, which he desperately needs in order to get his name out in the public eye over and over again until people start becoming interested and finding out what he’s all about. It’s going to take a lot of PR and expensive advertising for him to compete with the name recognition that Giuliani has going for him, but if Romney has any chance at all he seems to be making the best of it.
I’m not sure where you and Josh are getting your information, but Obama seems to be the clear winner out of all of the candidates so far:
(1) Obama received donations from more than 100,000 donors, far surpassing any other candidate, including Clinton (50,000), McCain (45,000), Edwards (40,000) or Romney (32,000)
(2) 90 percent of Obama’s donations were small donations of $100 or less
Obama has the largest base of supporters to keep going back to to raise more money and definitely has the most momentum in the press out of any candidate.
You make a good point. I did a lot of media research to find these numbers, and nobody had the same numbers.
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