Clinton, Obama Apparently Tied in Donations

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Clinton, Obama Apparently Tied in Donations
By CQ Staff (Congressional Quarterly.com) | 7:00 PM; Sep. 29, 2007 |

"With less than 30 hours before the third quarter deadline, the top Democratic presidential candidates appear to be running neck-and-neck in the money race. An aide for Illinois Sen. Barack Obama estimates that his campaign will have received between $18 million and $19 million in contributions in the third fiscal quarter of the year, which ends Sunday at midnight.

That is well below the $32.9 million the campaign raised in the second quarter, which ended June 30. But it appears to match the projection of his main Democratic rival, New York Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, whose campaign estimated earlier in the week that it would raise between $17 million and $20 million for the quarter. Clinton raised $27 million in the previous quarter.

Thus far in the presidential race, Obama and Clinton have far outpaced the rest of the field in money raised -- with $58.9 million and $63.1 million, respectively, as of June 30. The next closest candidate at that point was former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney, with $44.4 million total in contributions for his Republican campaign. Summer is traditionally a slower time for fundraising, which could explain the drop off in the latest quarter, spanning July through September.

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http://www.cqpolitics.com/2007/09/clinton_obama_apparently_tied.html

[Tellurian]

1. Oh horrors, Noooooo! It cannot Beeeeeee!

So this means????

:nuke: :nuke: :nuke:

[applegrove]

2. It means the race may be tighter. More drama. But hopefully a deeper

discussion about who the Democratic nominee should be. I'd like to see the candidates expand more fully on why they should be president. I'm bored with the current simple narratives.