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Fundraising's Doldrums Don't Hurt Clinton Camp

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The Associated Press

Published: October 3, 2007

WASHINGTON - Hillary Rodham Clinton defied the usual slow flow of summer money, tapping 100,000 new donors and outpacing all other presidential candidates in the chase for campaign cash over the past three months.

The New York senator raised $27 million in the quarter - $22 million for the primaries and $5 million for the general election - while other candidates fell victim to the traditional third-quarter dip.

For the first time, Clinton reported attracting more new donors in a quarter than Illinois Sen. Barack Obama. And, for the first time, she raised more primary election money.

Both candidates have now raised about $80 million each since the beginning of the year, Tuesday's updated figures showed.

Obama still has the most donors at 352,000 and leads Clinton in primary money. He has raised nearly $75 million toward the nominating contests to her $62.6 million - a figure that does not include the $10 million she transferred from her 2006 Senate campaign.

In the rarefied fundraising space that Clinton and Obama occupy, the differences are fairly insignificant.

Former Sen. John Edwards, lumped in with Obama and Clinton in polls of voters in the first-caucus state of Iowa, raised a distant $7 million in the quarter. He has said he plans to accept public financing that could boost his overall fundraising by about $10 million. He reported having $12 million cash on hand.

Republicans' presidential fundraising was far behind the Democrats'.

A top adviser to former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney said he would report contributions of nearly $10 million for the quarter, as well as a personal loan to his campaign of more than $6 million. That would bring Romney's overall public contributions for the year to about $45 million and his personal investmentto at least $16 million, for total receipts topping $60 million.

Former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani has not disclosed his third-quarter totals.

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