Obama raises $19 million in quarter by Delia Cruceru

Monday was the day when most of the presidential candidates released their third quarter fund-raising tallies. By far, Barack Obama is the leader in this competition, as his aides said that he raised at least $20 million over the summer. In this quarter, Democratic presidential candidates surpassed Republicans in the fundraising, and they still continue to raise more money. Barack Obama is the first among his fellow Democrats too, reporting yesterday his latest three month fundraising also announcing that he attracted 93,000 new donors in the period. "Many in Washington have spent the last weeks declaring the outcome of this race to be pre-ordained, and the primary process a mere formality," said Obama campaign manager David Plouffe in a statement. "Yet, in this quarter alone, 93,000 more Americans joined our campaign, because they desire real change and believe Barack Obama is the one candidate who can deliver it." Hillary Clinton had not released her tallies as the quarter ended for her fundraising Sunday night, according to her aides she will release her totals later this week, and it's expected to raise a similar amount as Obama did. The Republican Fred Thompson raised almost $8 million in July, August and September bringing his total fundraising to $11.5 million. Rudy Giuliani hasn't released a tally but over the weekend he declared that he would "do as well as the other Republicans, maybe we will do better than some." Mitt Romney collected only $10 million from donors, using at least $6million of his money for the campaign.

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by Delia Cruceru for PocketNews (http://pocketnews.tv)

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