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« on: July 02, 2007, 07:38:28 pm »

Obama raises $32.5 million, thought to be a Democratic party record
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Sen. Barack Obama raised at least $32.5 million from April to June


Total thought to be a new record for a Democratic presidential candidate

Rival for nomination, Sen. Hillary Clinton, said to have raised about $27 million

Democratic candidate John Edwards raised $9 million during second quarter
     
WASHINGTON (CNN) -- Presidential contender Sen. Barack Obama raised at least $32.5 million in the second quarter of 2007, topping his first quarter effort by nearly $7 million, the Illinois Democrat's campaign announced Sunday.




More than 154,000 donors contributed to Sen. Barack Obama's campaign in the second quarter, his aides said.

 The Obama campaign said the senator raised "at least" $31 million in the second quarter in primary money, and a total -- counting $1.5 million in general election funds -- of $32.5 million.

The amount is believed to be the highest ever raised in a quarter by a Democratic candidate, and exceeded what rival Sen. Hillary Clinton's campaign predicted she would raise in the same period.

In an e-mail posted on the campaign Web site, Obama campaign manager David Plouffe said the fundraising will allow Obama to compete fully funded in all February 5, 2008, contests in states like California and New York.

"Frankly, when we entered this race, we did not think that was possible," Plouffe wrote. "We estimated at this point of the campaign we'd be at least $20-25 million behind one of our fellow candidates."

Clinton's campaign has not yet released the amount of money raised for the second quarter, which ended at midnight Saturday.

Spokesman Howard Wolfson said Thursday that the New York senator and former first lady expected to be out-raised by Obama. Wolfson said she would raise "in the range of $27 million" in the second quarter, putting her total take for the year north of $53 million.

In the first quarter, Obama raised $25.7 million, and $24.8 million of that was for the primary campaign. Clinton led Democratic fundraising in the first quarter, raising $26 million, and posted another $10 million from her Senate war chest.

More than 154,000 donors contributed money to Obama's campaign this quarter, up from the 104,000 donors in the first quarter, Obama's campaign said.


Also on Sunday, former Sen. John Edwards' campaign announced that it had raised more than $9 million in the second quarter. That total is sharply lower than it was during the first quarter, when he raised more than $14 million. But the deputy manager of his campaign touted the news.

"It's been a great quarter for us," Jonathan Prince told reporters Sunday during a conference call.

Prince said the campaign had reached its goal for the three-month fundraising period, and added that "almost all" of the money raised in this quarter can be spent in the Democratic primary.

And Sen. Chris Dodd, a Connecticut Democrat, raised $3.25 million in the second quarter, a campaign official said. But the official told CNN that Dodd's campaign does not have a primary-general election split broken down.

Overall, Dodd has raised more than $12 million in 2007 to date and has about $6.5 million remaining in the bank, the official said.

Although candidates have until July 15 to file their contribution and expenditure reports with the Federal Election Commission, many campaigns -- especially those that did well -- are likely to release the figures sooner.


Earlier this week, a spokesman for New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson said he has raised at least $7 million from April through June, which would be about $800,000 more than he raised in the first quarter.

Richardson's overall total will top $13 million, which would put him near the top of the second tier of Democratic candidates. E-mail to a friend

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« Reply #1 on: July 02, 2007, 07:41:42 pm »

If he has no Illuminati connections then I'd vote for him.
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« Reply #2 on: July 02, 2007, 07:47:02 pm »

Obama's money puts Clinton's 'inevitable' nomination in doubt
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Sen. Barack Obama raised at least $32.5 million from April to June

Rival for nomination, Sen. Hillary Clinton, raised about $27 million

Clinton leading the polls in both national and in key primary states

Obama has passion, momentum to challenge Clinton's "inevitable" nomination

By Bill Schneider
CNN Senior Political Analyst

     
WASHINGTON (CNN) -- Just when Washington insiders were beginning to think of Sen. Hillary Clinton's nomination as inevitable, here comes Sen. Barack Obama to shake up that assumption with stupendous second-quarter fundraising totals: $32.5 million raised, of which $31 million can be spent in the Democratic primaries.




Sen. Hillary Clinton currently leads in national polls, but Sen. Barack Obama raised more money in the second quarter.

 That's a bigger total take than Clinton's impressive $27 million for the quarter, and half again more than she raised for the primaries ($21 million).

So who's the front-runner now? We're in the middle of the "invisible primary," the year before the election when no actual votes are cast but candidates compete for money and attention.  Watch Sen. Obama explain why people are backing his campaign »

Historically, the candidate who has raised the most money and leads the polls at the end of the invisible primary (i.e., December 31, 2007) ends up getting the nomination. Except when he doesn't. Howard Dean won the invisible primary in 2003, but was effectively finished a few weeks later after he came in third in Iowa.

At the half-year mark, Obama, D-Illinois, leads Clinton, D-New York, in primary fundraising, although both contenders have raised record amounts of money for Democrats this early in the campaign. Only President Bush has raised more than $30 million in any quarter during the year before the election ($35.1 million the second quarter of 2003).

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Obama's take for the last six months ($55.7 million for the Democratic primaries) is larger than the total raised by Howard Dean in the entire year of 2003 ($53 million).

Money is one scorecard. Polls are another, and that's where Obama continues to lag. The latest national poll of Democrats has Clinton leading Obama, 43 to 25 percent, with John Edwards at 17 percent if Al Gore is not included as a candidate, according to a CNN/Opinion Research Corporation poll conducted June 22-24.

Obama's campaign manager David Plouffe wrote, "One of our opponents is also the quasi-incumbent in the race, who in our belief will and should lead just about every national poll from now until the Iowa caucuses. Expect nothing different and attach no significance to it.''

What about the early voting states? A mixed picture. Polls taken in June show Clinton with a big lead over Obama among New Hampshire and Nevada Democrats. Two polls of Iowa Democrats show a tight race among the top three contenders, while the latest poll of South Carolina Democrats puts Obama in the lead.

Obama's record-breaking fundraising numbers signify that the candidate is, indeed, a phenomenon. More impressive than the dollar amounts is the fact that the Obama campaign claims to have raised money from more than 250,000 individuals, most of it in small amounts.

In this case, smaller is better because the campaign can go back and continue to mine those contributors for more money. With that many small contributors, Obama can claim broad grassroots support.

What drives that kind of support? Passion. More than any other candidate, Obama appears to have captured the moment in this campaign with his message of inclusiveness and change.

One of Obama's first television ads, now running in Iowa, pays tribute to his spirit of bipartisanship. "Republican legislators respected Senator Obama,'' a Republican state senator from Illinois says in the ad.

Another ad seeks to embellish Obama's image as an outsider. In the ad, a Harvard law school professor describes Obama as "someone who could've written his ticket on Wall Street" but instead took "all of the talent and all of the learning and decide to devote it to the community and to making people's lives better.''

Does money translate into votes? Not necessarily. Ask Dean or Ross Perot, both of whom spearheaded grassroots movements in previous campaigns. But money does do two things. It enables Obama to run heavy television advertising in the crucial early states, introducing the candidate and his campaign message (and responding to criticism). It also gets the candidate a lot of attention and interest: Obama can be called the front-runner by at least one measure.

Other second-quarter fundraising figures show respectable though not record-breaking takes. John Edwards' $9 million is down from the $14 million he raised in the first quarter. Bill Richardson's $7 million is up a bit from the $6 million he raised in the first quarter. It puts Richardson's total close to Edwards' for the last quarter.


Republican candidates have been slower to report their second-quarter totals (final figures are not due until July 15). But two results seem likely: the total amount raised in the second quarter will break all records for fundraising this early in a campaign, and Democrats will once again out-raise Republicans, just as they did in the first quarter. This means there is an unprecedented amount of public interest in the 2008 campaign.

People seem to be throwing money at the candidates. And most of it is going to the Democrats. E-mail to a friend

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« Reply #3 on: July 02, 2007, 07:49:30 pm »

If he has no Illuminati connections then I'd vote for him.

He isn't rich enough or come from the right enough circles to have Illuminati connections.  The same, of course cannot be said for Bush.
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« Reply #4 on: July 03, 2007, 12:07:27 am »

The question is does he have the will not to be pursuaded by the Illuminati-side of politics ?? Huh  Cheesy
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« Reply #5 on: July 03, 2007, 02:01:27 pm »

I am a whole lot more concerned with any Council on Forgein Relations affililations than I am the Illuminati right now. There is a hard move to create the North American Union, combining the US, Canada and Mexico, and there are also plans to do away with the American dollar, in favor of the "Amero."  It's "New World Order" all the way and apparently the CFR is behind this move. I checked about ten days ago, and out of all the canidates running, only Ron Paul, the republican long shot, had no CFR affilliations. It was said that Obama had CFR affiliations, but I couldn't find any proof of that. However, Hilary and husband are CFR all the way, and since Bill is holding hands with GHW Bush these days, she sure isn't going to get my vote.
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« Reply #6 on: July 04, 2007, 02:38:56 pm »

If anti-Illuminati Libertarians are smart they'll get something up on Youtube before 2008.
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« Reply #7 on: July 04, 2007, 09:01:23 pm »

Well, you can pretty much bet the rest of the presidential hopefulls couldn't pull off a video like this...

This is an interesting take on Obama.

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