Obama outraises Romney in August, barely
(CBS) BOSTON -- For the first time since April, Chicago has outraised Boston, with President Obama's re-election campaign and the Democratic National Committee pulling in more than $114 million last month, while Republican standard-bearer Mitt Romney and his supporting Republican committees raised $111.6 million.
Mr. Obama's haul marks the first time the president and DNC have topped the $100 million mark this election cycle. Romney has hit the figure in each of the last three months.
Obama campaign manager Jim Messina celebrated the victory in a statement emailed to reporters at 12:23 a.m., just 23 minutes after news of Romney's August totals were reported.
"The key to fighting back against the special interests writing limitless checks to support Mitt Romney is growing our donor base, and we did substantially in the month of August," Messina said.
The release directed reporters to the @BarackObama twitter handle, which was soon sending out additional factoids: More than $1.1 million was donated to the president's campaign; 317,954 donors were giving to Mr. Obama for the first time; 97.77 percent of the donations were $250 or less; the average donation was $58.31.
Romney's August total was also his largest monthly fundraising take to date, boosted, in part, by the naming of Paul Ryan to the ticket. On August 12, a day after the official announcement of the Wisconsin congressman as Romney's running mate, Romney Press Secretary Andrea Saul said the campaign raised $5 million.
"Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan are offering bold solutions to our country's problems -- that is why we are seeing such tremendous support from donors across the country," Romney Victory National Finance Chairman Spencer Zwick and RNC Chairman Reince Priebus said in a joint statement.
According to a campaign news release announcing Romney's August total, $34.6 million -- about 31 percent -- was raised through donations of less than $250. Romney has typically lagged behind Mr. Obama in small-dollar donations, but has made up the difference from donors giving the maximum amount allowed.
Romney's campaign, Republican National Committee and state party participants also announced they have about $168.5 million cash on hand -- a sizeable amount for the remaining two months of the race. So far, the Obama campaign hasn't disclosed how much money the president has available.
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The Marxist will lose that 5 point lead in a few weeks like he is in the other swing states as the Jobs Report and economic out look keeps steadily going down and Consumer Confidence keeps going down as it has.
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1) OPbama isn't a Marxist. You have no idea what that means - if you did you would know how silly it is to say it.
2) You makew the wildly invalid assumption that everyone believes that the slow economy and jobs situaiton is 100% Obama's fault. Buy yourself a clue - as many people blame the Republicans for it (and rightly so) than Obama as if the Republicans would pass the Jobs Act we would see 2M more people employed, and if they would pass removing breaks t outsourcers and giving those breaks to local hiring, we would see even more.
1. RepubliCONs really aren't too well educated all "isms" are alike as far as they are concerned.
2. RepubliCONs stagger about trying to pin blame on Obama like a blindfolded four year old trying to pin the tail on the donkey, thus compounding the problem and becoming part of it.
I just spoke with Barry Goldwater. Barry told me it was a Huge Mistake to select Far-Right Paul Ryan as his running mate.
Yes, Conservatives think we are stupid but they are more stupid if they are losing this political war.
IF OBAMA GETS ANOTHER TERM AMERICA ECONOMY WILL COLLAPSE. WAKE UP AMERICA. ALL OF YOU!!!!!
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Hey janeteleanor,
Mitt Romney got no bounce coming out of the RNC. Mitt is new to Politics. Paul Ryan is too far-right.
Barrack Obama got a 9 Points lead bounce coming out of the DNC. http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2012/09/10/obama-rebounds-after-convention-how-big-and-for-how-long/
Sell your house now and send all the money to the Mitt Romney for President Campaign Committee. You are in grave danger of losing your Pride and Ego!
URGENT "Put your money into your mouth"
OBAMA/BIDEN 2012 : )