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Donations For Obama Set Record

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The Associated Press

Published: February 1, 2008

Updated: 02/01/2008 12:24 am

WASHINGTON - Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama raised $32 million in January, a whopping figure that has permitted the campaign to boost staff and extend advertising to states beyond the sweeping Super Tuesday contests, aides said Thursday.

The amount was the most raised in one month by a presidential candidate who still faced a primary challenge.

Obama is advertising in 20 of the 22 states in play for next week's contests and plans to begin advertising in seven more that hold primaries or caucuses later in February. Rival Hillary Rodham Clinton is advertising in 12 Super Tuesday states, including her home state of New York.

In an e-mail to supporters Wednesday evening, the Obama campaign said it had attracted 224,000 new donors in January for a total of more than 700,000 overall.

Obama and Clinton have been aggressive fundraisers: Both raised more than $100 million in 2007.

Clinton's end of year finance report, filed Thursday evening with the Federal Election Commission, showed she raised $26.5 million in individual contributions during the last three months of the year. She spent $39.2 million during the period and had $37.9 million left as the year began. Clinton reported an end-of-year debt of nearly $5 million.

The Clinton campaign has not released its January totals, but Obama's fundraising was expected to eclipse hers.

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