Thompson supporters breathe a sigh of relief

By Stephen Fountain, Editor

Filed Under Race for White House 2008 on Oct 1 

A collective sigh of relief was heard as Team Thompson reported raising $8 million in the third quarter. Even better news was that those numbers were raised from over 70,000 individual donors. Now that is something Fred can cheer about. I guess this race isn’t over after all.

Comments

  • Kris

    Money isn’t everything. You just need enough you don’t need to actually out raise the other candidate. Money only matters as much as it is a sign of electoral suport. Luckily in this country you still can’t buy an election…

  • Robin

    Fred reminds me of that lazy employee that always has an excuse for not being able to get his work done.

  • Troy La Mana

    As canidates fall off they will give their war chests to Fred. Besides, we’ll soon see just how much of the Hitlery money is illegal. The whole Hsu mess might be enough to take her down in the coming months.

  • TL

    Troy, you are living in a fantasy world, there is no way that Fred will be able to catch Hillary. Hillary will have 100 million by the end of the year, in addition to all the 527 money.

  • Troy La Mana

    8 million for 1 1/2 months work

  • Robin

    Get real!

    8 million would be good for a Senate race in TN.

    There is no way Fred will be able to raise enough money to compete in the general.

  • Jason Berry

    What sigh of relief are you talking about? Fred should have dominated in GOP fundraising this quarter. Romney raised around 20 million his first quarter and you think 8 mill. your fisrt quarter is a sigh of relief? How bad were your expectations?

  • Troy La Mana

    No TL, since Fred was smart and entered the race last month instead of way too early like the rest of the pack he only has to raise 42 million more.

    Where are the naysayers apology who said Fred couldn’t raise that much money?

    I keep telling you that people were waiting for Fred to jump into the race until they donated. Here is your proof that Fred has far more support then the press attributed.

  • TL

    Yup, just another 92 million to catch Hillary.

    No problem, I’m sure that old Fred is up to the task.