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The fundraising data are in for the Presidential candidates in the third quarter of 2007. NBC's Political Director Chuck Todd assigned "bragging rights" to Hillary Rodham Clinton, with her campaign being "absolutely giddy" about not only outraising Barack Obama ($22m vs $19m) but also outnumbering his donating supporters. Low-priced events "were key to bringing in 100,000 new donors," her operatives told ABC's Kate Snow (subscription required). "It is what Obama has been doing all year."
ABC's Snow saw Rodham Clinton edging towards inevitable status, with a lead not only in fundraising but also in national polls. Snow liked the "shrewd satire" on NBC's Saturday Night Live and played a clip: "A little more than a year from now, you, the American people, will go to the polls and elect me President of the United States." The frontrunner's biggest potential stumbling block, Snow suggested, will be the Iowa caucuses, where she is running neck-and-neck with Obama and John Edwards. With Edwards raising just $7m in the last three months, NBC's Todd called the Democratic contest "just a two-person race--financially."
NBC's Todd understated that Republican "are not exciting donors very well" as the third quarter saw Mitt Romney raise less than half what Rodham Clinton pulled in ($10m vs Rudolph Giuliani $9m, Fred Thompson $8m, John McCain $5m). "Perhaps the biggest surprise is Ron Paul, the little-known Congressman from Texas." Paul's $3m exceeded the fundraising of "supposedly more serious candidates" Christopher Dodd, Joe Biden and Mick Huckabee.
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