>>>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<<<
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.
If Mitt loans his campaign any more money he’s going to go broke.
“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
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!!!
Others explained it to you, but yeah, 3 weeks vs 3 months is quite telling.
3 weeks vs Rudy’s 3 months and he’s about 2 million behind. And this is after it’s been announced rudy is accepting donations from overseas.
3 weeks vs three months and he’s 7 million behind Romney, though Romney’s been donating to himself so who really knows his real figures.
Thompson’s figures were not be impressive for three months, but for three weeks? They are very good. And coing from so many small donors it indicates real ground support that translates into votes vs a couple of big checks from one or two people.
Fred hasn't had to spend a lot and raise comparatively more cash and hold a pretty good lead in most polls vs Rudy and definitely a long way ahead of Mitt.
It's not about cash, which Mitt is spending like a sailor in a whorehouse, it's about the prospect.
Mitt doesn't have it.
Fred does.