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October 13, 2011 10:48 PM UTC

Is Obama the Greatest Fundraiser...EVER?

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  • by: Colorado Pols

You’ve seen the Q3 fundraising numbers from President Obama, with more than $70 million raised in total. Our friends at “The Fix” break down the fundraising numbers in more detail:

In his first six months of active fundraising, President Obama has raked in $90 million for his 2012 re-election campaign not to mention an additional $65 million for the Democratic National Committee.

While not all of the Republican presidential candidates have filed their fundraising reports for the third quarter, it’s a certainty that Obama’s $43 million haul will be more than the combined total for all of them over the past three months. (Texas Gov. Rick Perry is expected to lead the Republican field with $17 million raised between July 1 and Sept. 30.)…

…What’s clear – and has been since his 2008 race when he collected $750 million – is that Obama is the pre-eminent political fundraiser of his time.

We would take that last statement a step further: Obama may be the greatest political fundraiser of all time. The numbers are staggering from a recent historical perspective.

In the 2004 Presidential election, Republican George W. Bush raised $367.2 million, compared to $328.5 million for Democrat John Kerry. That’s a combined total of $695.7 million, which Obama surpassed on his own in 2008.

In the 2000 Presidential election, the entire field of candidates, from beginning to end (with an open seat at stake), raised $528.9 million. President Obama has already raised nearly one-fifth that amount in six months.

What say you, Polsters? Vote in the poll after the jump…  

Is Obama the Greatest Political Fundraiser EVER?

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26 thoughts on “Is Obama the Greatest Fundraiser…EVER?

  1. Just curious; did you account for inflation?

    His numbers are impressive, but fair is fair. Especially when deciding the best of all time **echo** **echo** **echo**.

    1. From the Daily Caller

      The president’s re-election campaign raised $42.8 million in the third quarter of 2011, down from the $47 million it raised in the second quarter. The amount raised in the most recent quarter is far below what former President George W. Bush raised during the same period in 2003.

      Bush raised $50 million in the third-quarter of 2003, or an inflation adjusted $61.5 million, according to an inflation-calculator at the Bureau of Labor Statistics.

      http://dailycaller.com/2011/10

      1. But what did Bush raise in Q2 of 2003? Was Q3 the first quarter he started seriously raising money for re-election, because if it was, then the comparison is meaningless (you always get the low-hanging fruit first).

      2. That’s not generic DNC money, it goes into a DNC fund specifically designated for the Obama re-elect, and can be used for just about anything the $43m can. The difference between the two is just accounting.

        So Obama raised $70m. Period.

  2. And you still posted this, and added in an amount of spin that’s even making ME dizzy (and I work in marketing, sort of).

    Kind of uncool Guvvies. I still loves ya, but flag on the play.

                1. I know a lot of very sweet, sweet, lovable Republicans. But they still could not convince me to read Colorado Peak Politics. At least not until they get a page redesign… the color scheme alone the one time I visited about burned my retinas.

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