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| Last Edited | ArmyDem Oct 01, 2007 09:12pm |
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| News Date | Wednesday, October 3, 2007 03:00:00 AM UTC0:0 |
| Description | By Sam Youngman
October 02, 2007
Barack Obama’s presidential campaign turned heads Monday, reporting that the Illinois Democratic senator raised $20 million for the third quarter with more than $19 million for use in the primaries.
The third quarter generally is considered the toughest fundraising period because of the slow summer days that are included in it. But Obama’s hefty haul, his lowest of the year, brings his total for the primary to just less than $75 million.
By contrast, Obama rival and former Sen. John Edwards’s (D-N.C.) campaign spent Monday afternoon trying to portray its decision to accept public matching funds as a positive, using the opportunity to attack Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton (D-N.Y.) for not doing the same.
“The Edwards campaign says it opted into the public financing system out of principle,” a Clinton spokesman, Phil Singer, said. “Others might come to a different conclusion.”
The Edwards campaign said it raised about $7 million in the third quarter, and has a total of about $12 million cash on hand. Edwards adviser Joe Trippi said excluding between $1.5 million and $2 million in general election funds and adding the $10 million they expect to receive in taxpayer dollars, the campaign is looking at a total of about $20 million. |
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