The Obama campaign confirms that it raised an astonishing $32 million -- in the month of January alone.

Clearly, the Iowa win on January 3 provided a huge burst of fundraising momentum right on through the South Carolina victory.

To put this number in perspective: In one month, Obama raised more than half the $51 million Howard Dean raised during his entire campaign in 2004, and roughly one-fourth the full sum of $125 million George Bush raised to take the presidency in 2000.

Late Update: A commenter below raises a good point: There's no way of proving that this was actually given to Drudge beyond his claim that it was his "exclusive." So I've removed the reference. Apologies for jumping to conclusions, though in fairness all I did was ask whether this had been leaked to him.

Late Late Update: In another sign of how protracted this race may end up being, it looks as if the Obama campaign is already preparing to advertise on states beyond Feb. 5th.

Obama will reportedly go on the air in all the states with primaries on February 9th, 10th, and 12th. Sizable amounts of money have already been plunked down for ads in just about every Feb. 5th state.