October 16, 2007 06:55 PM UTC

Presidential Candidates and Colorado Scratch

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• by: Colorado Pols

M.E. Sprengelmeyer of the Rocky Mountain News takes a look at Colorado donors to Presidential candidates in his blog “Back Roads to the White House:

Not surprisingly, Sen. Barack Obama of Illinois still leads the way among Democrats when it comes to raking up campaign cash from the Centennial State. But Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton is picking up steam, nearly doubling what Obama raised in Colorado in the July 1 to Sept. 30 period.

On the Republican side, it’s a closer dash for cash, with former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney still leading former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani and Sen. John McCain of Arizona. The native son, Rep. Tom Tancredo, is in fourth in Colorado’s money race, and that could change if the new GOP entrant, former Sen. Fred Thompson, hits his stride in the Rockies, as he’s trying to do nationally.