Do we know what Obama's May numbers are yet? I imagine his June numbers will be Epic.

Great point Eric.

LISTEN UP ALL YOU TPM'ers, IT IS TIME TO DONATE MORE MONEY TO THE OBAMA CAMPAIGN.

This really is OUR time, lets do what we can now, while we still can!!!!

http://my.barackobama.com/page/content/semr?source=SEM-register-google-obama-search-national

My guess is that a lot of McCain's donations will be close to or at the limit of $2300. He might get a lot of money up front this way, but as happened with Hillary, the well will run dry quickly. Obama, however, will have an entire ocean of small-dollar contributors that he can tap into throughout the general.

That's not change we can -- what does that say? Oh, "ha ha". That's not change we can ha ha believe in!

Lanny Davis just joined VoteBoth.com as a senior advisor. There's the nail in that coffin.

No breakdown here (or in the link) on how much of that is "primary" funds & thus available before September. Also no breakdown on small contributions vs. maxed out donors -- thus no sense of McC's ability to keep the spigots on. The very absence of such info is highly suggestive.

The story does point out that McCain "has spent a large chunk of his time raising money in between campaign stops" while Obama & Hillary have been mostly, you know, campaigning. One of the most important aspects of Obama's fundraising is that it has occupied an unprecedentedly small portion of the candidate's time. That advantage is likely to continue.

Of course there will be plenty of money spent on the Repub side both by McCain & by others. But the Republican's historical advantage in $$ is gone. Obama will have much more, and will have more direct control over most of it. Whether this will be "overwhelming" is not measurable -- at least not now.

McCain is still in deep shit on the whole financing question. As of now so far as I know he is still under his public financing pledge for the primary, and almost certainly gone over the legal limit. He notified the FEC that was opting to drop out of the public funding pledge but so far the FEC has turned him down. This could turn out to be a real big side issue in the campaign.

On Obama's side, he made some kind of pledge to go with public financing in the general if McCain did the same. So far nobody can hold him to the pledge because the Obama is not the official nominee yet.

But count on it, this will be an issue, and a big one after both candidates have been officially nominated. From Obama's point of view the ideal would be for the FEC to release McCain from the pledge, but so far it has not happened because the FEC, lacking a quorum of directors, is defunct.

What a mess.

I'm certain the unbid contractors of the loyal Bushite brigade just love giving to McBush the II, who is everything Bush ever was to unbid contractors, a friend, confident, a criminal con-conspirator.

The definition of pork is giving the taxpayer money back to taxpayers instead of simply your friends in the way Bush does it and now John McCain who is only GIVING TAXPAYER money to unbid contractors, his friends - and McCain can't get more Bush like than that.

Republican is simply synonymous with word criminal these days, because Republican certainly doesn't mean conservative. There is nothing conservative about unbid contracts, but most certainly there is everything criminal about it.

I'm actually waiting to donate again to Obama to make sure my dollars are spent torching the mccain campaign and not Hillary's consolation prize. I have a feeling that the lastest financial reports will be dwarfed compared to next months now that he's flying solo.