Here's a fun statistic: Mitt Romney has just surpassed Steve Forbes in some self-financing numbers.

Throughout all of 1995, Forbes put $16.5 million of his own money into his campaign — while Romney has kicked in $17.4 million of his own money for the last three quarters alone. At that three-quarter point in 2000, Forbes had only given himself $12.7 million, less than what Romney has done so far.

On the other hand, Romney's campaign has been a strange sort of fusion between real fundraising and self-financing. He has brought in over $60 million, with only just over a quarter of it coming form himself. Forbes never matched that sort of fundraising prowess, and was never able to convince so many Republican donors to give money to somebody who could easily take care of it himself.

Forbes would eventually total $37.9 million in self-financing in the 1996 race, and $38.7 million for 2000. If Romney wants to outdo Forbes, he certainly has the means to pull it off. But with a significant number of donors other than himself, how will Romney's self-financing work out for the remainder of the campaign — especially if he were to become the Republican nominee?