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Barack Obama Sets Fundraising Record in August
$66 million collected in August is a record for money collected in a presidential race as reporter by Reuters in "Obama fundraising rolls on with new record".
Excerpt:
Obama has decided not to take public funds for the final two months leading up to the November 4 election so will need to spend some of that time raising cash. McCain is taking public financing so will receive $84 million from a government presidential election fund.
Obama spokesman Bill Burton said the August figure was helped by 500,000 new donors. The tally for the latest month exceeded the $55 million for February, which marked a record for the Illinois senator and an all-time high for any presidential candidate during a primary.
The Obama campaign said its cash on hand at the end of August was more than $77 million and that its total number of donors is now 2.5 million.
In his last month of private fundraising, McCain took in $47 million in August, a record for the Arizona senator and a number that was helped by his announcement of his running mate, Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin.
Or so the McCain camp says. The days after the announcement that Sarah Palin would be the running mate were also the last weekend that money could be collected for the campaign, but the McCain folks would want to play up Governor Palin as the new political super 'celebrity' and get the hype, that they did get by pretending that all that money was due to her place on the ticket. So now celebrity is good to the Republic politicians. Oh yes, dear GOP members. When you put the "ic" back on "Democratic"which is the adjectiveof Democrat, I'll put the "an" back on Republican.
Obama took the day off from the campaign trail and stayed at home in Chicago. The night before, he canceled an appearance on NBC's "Saturday Night Live" because he did not want to be making jokes while Hurricane Ike was ravishing Texas this weekend.
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