July 1st, 2007

Obama raises 32.5 million

Posted by Drew at 2:58 pm

This is the most any Democratic candidate has ever raised in a quarter. Anyone who says the senator is “unelectable” has just been proven wrong, I think.

However, according to the six most recent polls, he still trails Hillary by at least 10% for the Democratic nomination. Hillary’s campaign expects to have raised about $27 million this quarter.

Both Hillary and Obama are beating Giuliani, the Republican front-runner, by several percentage points.

Read more analysis of Obama’s fundraising success here.

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