Romney pays self; Paul doubles 2nd quarter funds
Posted on October 4th, 2007 at 2:27 pm by Contributor ArchiveRudy Giuliani led the GOP candidates in fundraising for the 3rd quarter, bringing in $11 million. Mitt Romney raised $10 million, Fred Thompson raised $8 million, John McCain brought close to $6 million, and surprising the field, Ron Paul gathered over $5 million.
It is interesting to note that Romney loaned himself a whopping $8.5 million dollars for the quarter, which means he spent a total of $17.5 million on his presidential run. Considering he only has $9 million dollars on hand, without his own contributions, he’d be in Huckabee territory.
3rd quarter numbers are generally expected to be less across the board, but Paul’s fundraising stood out. While Rudy McRomney’s contributions were down significantly from the 2nd quarter, donations to Ron Paul’s campaign were more than twice what they were last quarter. If he can continue to build momentum, Paul might actually get to play with the big boys.
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Keep in mind - everything Mitt has loaned himself is PRIMARY money. All other money is directed at the General. Which actually makes him the best funded GOP candidate to take on Hillary in the General, without having to race about getting donations to get off the gorund.
Rudy is the only candidate that is raising enough money to take on Hillary.
So you slam Fred for raising 8 million in 1 1/2 months with 70,000 contributors but Romney only raises 10 million over 3 months with only 23,000 contributors? Extend that over another 1 1/2 months and that’s a possible 16 million with 140,000 contributors. Who has the momentum?
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/21131873/
Ron Paul’s real challenge will be in meeting the $12mil goal he has set for the next quarter. The last drive coaxed me into donating another $100, but I don’t know that I’ll be as easily prompted as the next quarter draws close. The best news I’ve heard so far is concerning his donations from soldiers.
“Rep. Ron Paul (Texas) […] said his colleagues have taken notice that he has raised more money from active service members than any other GOP White House hopeful.”
http://thehill.com/campaign-2008/pauls-active-service-member-donations-get-noticed-2007-08-03.html
Support like that can certainly garner interest from the mainstream Republican “support the troops” voters.
Mitt Romney is spending money for name recognition and he is getting it where it counts, in the early states. It’s the amount of money you raise that counts here. You know that Ethan. Why are trying to confuse people. He is an incredible leader and would be great for Americans… especially financially.
To echo the sentiment of Troy La Mana, Fred seems to be doing alright. He announced today that he raised 9.3 million, not 8; which puts him in the thicket with Rudy and Romney. And that’s without a full quarter of fundraising as a true “candidate.” For all those who said he waited too long, I believe crow is on the menu!
Lisa,
That sounds like more excuses for lazy Fred.
I see 9.3 million reasons why no excuses are necessary.
Both Romney and Rudy did better than that in their first quarter.
Both Romney and Rudy did better than that in their second quarter.
Both Romney and Rudy did better than that in their third quarter.
Did they do better then then for half of a quarter? 9.3 x 2 = Projected 18.6 million for the quarter. Sounds good to me.
Troy,
Fred’s excuse for not campaigning was that he had to focus on raising money in his first quarter.
Fred’s excuse now for not raising enough money, is that he was not campaigning.
What will Fred’s excuse be for losing in a landslide to Hillary?
Who is winning the integrity and trustworthyness derby?
Ron Paul…for he is the only candidate in that race.
Pubs just dismiss Paul because of his war stance…making them a one issue party. At best, non-Paul politicians’ will wipe out all terrorists, but continue flushing the country down the toilet: overspending, international banking running our economy, illegal immigration, NAU, massive corruption and horrible lobbying, etc. Basically, they offer the same ol’ path of destruction all hiding behind the Iranian boogeyman.
“If the mafia attacks someone in this country, we don’t bomb Italy!” —– Ron Paul
But we aren’t talking about Al Queda. We are talking about bombing Iranian nuclear sites. Why, again?
Anyway, at best, Paul would clean house in this country. Illegals would find they have no rights and largely leave. Unnecessary, corrupt-based spending would go way down. The Federal Reserve’s income tax would be gone; thus the grip of the international banking cartel would be gone. Israel would, eventually, be forced to behave themselves and there would be peace there.
Basically, who can you really believe, who can you really trust? I mean this with all my heart…how can you trust anyone without the voting record to back him/her up?
Looks like Moveon.org has been donating some money to Ron Paul’s campaign.
It also looks like (and by “looks like” I mean, “it’s a fact”) Ron Paul has received more donations from military personal than any other Republican candidate, including 3 times as much as Romney and 4 times as much as Rudy.
I guess the troops are anti-troop now?
http://www.capitaleye.org/inside.asp?ID=300
Updated reports are that Fred has raised $12.7 million from more than 80,000 supporters in all 50 states.
Sounds more like Fred is the canidate that came in first and not Romney.
Keith’s note is on target. Ron hitting the 4 million at the end of the month will be a good indicator of where he is going.
In the most recent article on the page, I put down my thoughts on what Ron should do to keep pushing forward
Food for Thought: If Mitt was such a great Governor, why does he have to spend money like crazy for awareness in New Hampshire?