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…  

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