July 13, 2011 05:09 PM UTC

Fundraising Record O-bliterated

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• by: Colorado Pols

The Atlantic’s Steve Clemons:

The combined operation of Obama for America and the Obama Victory Fund (which shares costs and receipts with the Democratic National Committee) saw 552,462 people making more than 680,000 donations — of which the average amount was $69.  98% of the donations made were less than $250.

Messina says that at this point in the campaign, this is the largest grass movement support for a campaign in American history.

The total Obama-Biden take this past quarter was $86 million…

As PoliticalWire’s Taegan Goddard points out this morning, the combined haul of Mitt Romney, Ron Paul, Tim Pawlenty, Jon Huntsman and Newt Gingrich was just $33.1 million.

Adds Eli Lehrer over at the Frum Forum:

Many of those engaged in conservative happy talk about the huge fundraising gap between President Obama’s haul ($86 million) and that of all Republican candidates combined (about $35 million) suggest that the Republican haul should also include the $18 million or so that the Republican National Committee presumably has in the bank. (The RNC’s June fundraising numbers aren’t yet available but it had $12 million at the end of May and has been bringing in roughly $6 million a month.)

The RNC’s haul should, indeed, “count” but the $35 million or so shouldn’t. In fact, every penny raised by the individual campaigns to date will be dissipated attacking other Republicans in the primaries while Obama will be able to save his entire $88 million to attack the Republican nominee…

We don’t think there are any delusions among Democrats that President Barack Obama will face a tough fight for re-election, and that for all the weakness evident in the present GOP field of challengers, rebuilding the broad movement the Obama campaign organized successfully in 2008–the small-donor progressives and moneyed pragmatists alike–is a tall order as well.

But it’s pretty tough to claim they’re not on track to do exactly that, while Republicans face a growing disconnect between their confident bluster…and their bottom line.