Romney Raises $18 Million -- $8.5 Million His Own Personal Cash
Mitt Romney's campaign is announcing today his total raised for this quarter: $18 million. But the campaign also says that $8.5 million of this came out of Romney's own pockets -- so his actual tally raised is closer to $10 million.
Still, that's double the reported $5 million raised by onetime front-runner and establishment candidate John McCain. Republican sources expect Rudy to come in with $12 million-$15 million, which, if accurate, would amount to more raised than Romney but less than his total of $18.5 million.
All of Romney's cash was raised for the primary, and none for the general election, bringing the total he's raised for the primary to $62 million.
Fun sidenote: Romney's tally of $10 million is barely more than half the $19 million Barack Obama raised for the primary, and is significantly less than half the $23 million Hillary raised. Yet another sign of just how much more energized Dems are about their candidates.
Late Update: Forgot to include Romney's cash-on-hand number, which is a less-than-healthy $9 million -- almost exactly the sum of money he gave to the campaign himself this time. Romney's been spending much more cash on TV than, say, Rudy, who announced today that he had $16 million on hand.
Comments (2)
Ferruge wrote on October 4, 2007 1:56 PM:But the campaign also says that $8.5 million of this came out of Romney's own pockets
Well, he's obviously convinced himself that he's a great candidate. I wonder why he doesn't share the argument that convinced him about that with anyone else.
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