Report: Thompson Only Brings In $8 Million
Fred Thompson's first-quarter fundraising numbers are coming out — and they're reportedly not all that impressive. After spending all Summer on his "testing the waters" campaign and declaring in early September, Thompson only took in over $8 million for the quarter.
When compared to his GOP rivals' first-quarter numbers — when the mass of people who wanted to make the initial contributions all lined up to do so — it pales next to Mitt Romney's $21 million, Rudy Giuliani $16.6 million, and John McCain' $13 million.
The Thompson camp says they were able to raise money from 70,000 individual donors, bringing in roughly $200,000/day since his official declaration. But bear in mind that after his Summer campaign there had to have been a lot of pent-up supply of donations. So can he improve from here, or is this as good as it gets?
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Daniel wrote on October 1, 2007 12:00 PM:Put this with yesterday's numbers from ARG in which Thompson is very weak in IA, NH and even in South Carolina, where he has collapsed to 10%. Thompson's campaign isn't doing that well.
