Obama On Target To Raise $50 Million In February

[JimGinPA]

http://marcambinder.theatlantic.com/archives/2008/02/obama_on_track_to_raise_50m_pl.php

Barack Obama is on track to raise more than 50M this month, if outside projections and outside advisers to the campaign are correct.

His campaign officially admits that they'll raise more than $36M. Beyond that, they're keeping mum. Only a few key aides know the true projected total and they're not talking to me or others in the press.

But outside advisers, and one Republican math whiz, are reading the body language as best they can.

Patrick Ruffini notes that Obama "had tallied about 256,000 donors for the year as of the end of January." These donors contributed an average of $140 each for a total of $36M.

Now, he notes, "Obama’s public donor count stands at 583,525, meaning about 327,000 people donated in February. With the same average, that would give Obama just over $46 million in 21 days."

And Ruffini has created an embedded crowdsourced spreadsheet that tracks every bit of public data about Obama's fundraising. From those calculations, he gets at least $60M for the quarter.

Outside campaign advisers said that they believed the campaign would raise at least $50M, based on conversations they've had with the cryptkeepers.

How much will Hillary Clinton raise? Between $25M and $30M, according to advisers

[ErnestoG]

1. Holy GODS thats alot of loot.

[Obamaman2008]

2. He needs to save it for the General Election

Maybe he can go to the rest of the states and try to get money there too. He needs $250 million I think to win in November.

[loveangelc]

3. OMG. This reminds me I need to tell my roommates to donate :-D

[psychopomp]

4. I sent $$$ this month

and plan to send more $$$ in a couple of weeks!

:bounce: :bounce: :bounce: :bounce: :bounce: :bounce: :bounce: :bounce:

[JimGinPA]

5. Me Too nt

[JimGinPA]

6. This Is Really What Set Her Off Today I Think

:woohoo:

[NDambi]

15. Yeah, you're probably right..lol

[Shine]

7. Wow, that's a lotta coin!!!

:wow: pretty impressive.

[sniffa]

8. I hope he doesn't blow it on parking

:scared:

[NJSecularist]

12. Or party platters and donuts

[NDambi]

13. I hope he doesn't blow on donuts and pizza..lol

[grantcart]

9. explains this morning lol

I seriously doubt if Hillary gets bast $ 15 million if that.

[democrattotheend]

10. I have a fundraising page if anyone wants to donate

http://my.barackobama.com/page/outreach/view/main/democrattotheend

Unless there's a collective DU page or something...if so I apologize.

[Skip Intro]

11. Well that's change you can believe in.

I guess?

[FrenchieCat]

16. At least he will be able to pay his bills......so that is different

from how the Government and Hillary's campaign run things...I would say!

[Skip Intro]

19. you would say. nt

[Thrill]

14. I sent in another 20 yesterday!!

[NDambi]

17. I sent in $250 this month...will do the same for March

[yourguide]

18. I donated again today...

after HRCs mailer performance...$100.

[Eric J in MN]

20. If you want to help Obama to reach 1,000,000 donors...

...then give soon:
http://www.barackobama.com/index.php

[yourguide]

21. Honestly

every time HRC goes negative on him, I give him more money.

seriously, I bet many of his donors are like that.

HRC is helping him raise money.