Posted on 09/30/2007 3:45:47 PM PDT by Pistolshot
WASHINGTON — Fred Thompson's fundraising in his first go-round as a declared presidential candidate could offer some surprisingly strong numbers as the entire field of 2008 candidates gets down to counting up their booties in the third-quarter money chase.
FOX News has learned that Thompson, the former Tennessee senator, will report having raised in excess of $8 million dollars in this quarter of the fiscal year. That's in addition to $3.5 million he raised in June.
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It’s OK. Fred could not raise that much money prior to announcing, so for three weeks it is a solid amount of money.
>>>Good news for Fred, bad for the rest.<<<
I’m confused. How is bringing in 8-million in your first quarter good while bringing in 15 and 10 bad in an ongoing campaign?
>>> On the GOP side, former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney was expected to again lead the pack with about $15 million this quarter, helped by a few more million dollars out of his personal fortune. Republican frontrunner Rudy Giuliani’s take was expected to run about $10 million<<<
Money quote: (excuse pun)
the campaign raised $200,000 a day since “announcing” his candidacy after Labor Day. Thompson had more than 70,000 donors, which far outpaces most candidates in both fields in their first quarters as candidates.
Even if Mitt contributed a few million to his campaign that still puts him way ahead of Thompson in the individual contributions.
Not only that, but since the other candidates were in the race earlier, they have a big lead for Fred to make up.
And his running total is roughly $40 million behind Hillary’s.
“Good news for Fred, bad for the rest.”
“Thompson had more than 70,000 donors, which far outpaces most candidates in both fields in their first quarters as candidates.”
Now that the latest polls are showing Fred Thompson to be the Republican front runner, his fund raising should grow rapidly.
If Mitt loans his campaign any more money he’s going to go broke.
October 9, 2007 - Dearborn, Michigan
This will be the first round robin Q&A, uh I mean debate with Fred.
Expect high ratings and many more FDT donors after.
heh. I don’t think you need to worry about Mitt Romney going broke.
And even if he did, I have doubts he’d earn it all back. The man has skills.
“I’m confused. How is bringing in 8-million in your first quarter good while bringing in 15 and 10 bad in an ongoing campaign?”
“When former Massachusetts governor Mitt Romney closes the books on his latest campaign finance report today, it will reveal a slow but steady shift from a candidacy built on thousands of individual donations to one relying increasingly on his own personal fortune.
Top Romney advisers said last week that they expected his campaign to raise almost $40 million in the first nine of months this year. And though they have not released a firm figure, they expected that Romney will have supplemented those contributions with nearly $15 million of his own money.”
>>That Romney is spending some of his personal fortune, estimated to be between $190 million and $250 million, in part reflects a decline in donations to his campaign. He led all of the GOP contenders in fundraising during the first three months of the year. But he relied in large part on maximum donations from business allies in Massachusetts, where he ran the venture capital company Bain Capital Partners, as well as from fellow Mormons in Utah, where Romney managed the 2002 Winter Olympics. His donations from those two states fell sharply between April and June.<<
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/09/29/AR2007092901537_pf.html
“Even if Mitt contributed a few million to his campaign that still puts him way ahead of Thompson in the individual contributions.”
And with all that he’s at 8.8% nationally. An ominous circumstance to say the least.
Paragraph 9 ... Thompson and McCain experiencing a serious cash crunch?
That in no way answered my question.
Trends, indicators, This is a late comers first quarter and already he showed “Thompson had more than 70,000 donors, which far out paces most candidates in both fields in their first quarters as candidates.”
All this was done before the breaking news from this weeks polling, that Fred Thompson is the leading candidate for the Republican primary.
Thompson will weather the storm, McCain won’t.
Do the math Brainiac!
In 20 days, Fred has raised over $8,000,000. None of the other candidates have come close to that impressive rate of fundraising.
To put it another way that may help you to understand, extrapolate that out to a three-month quarter and you have a $30,000,000 quarter!
These numbers are Excellent!!!
do we know how “front runner” Guiliani has done?
Mitt's a good businessman but he apparently made a bad investment by deciding to run for President after a measly term as Governor.
Yeah,
One unsubstantiated statement.
Notice that the only proof given is from McCain’s camp.
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