Kerry Raises $117 Million for Campaign

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http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=694&ncid=703&e=3&u=/ap/20040521/ap_on_el_pr/presidential_money

WASHINGTON - John Kerry (news - web sites) raised roughly $1 million a day last month, building his presidential campaign total to a Democratic record $117 million but still trailing President Bush (news - web sites)'s cash reserves.


Kerry began May with $28 million in the bank after devoting millions to his first major ad buys since the Democratic primaries. In all, Kerry spent $35 million last month and at least $89 million since January 2003, says a campaign finance report filed late Thursday.


Bush opened the month with nearly $72 million on hand. The Republican spent $31 million in April — much of it on ads — and has used up a presidential record of $126 million since officially starting his re-election effort last May, according to his new finance report to the Federal Election Commission (news - web sites).


Bush raised $15 million last month, pushing his campaign total past $200 million.

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[Doosh]

1. seems like Shrub's fundraising has slowed

Bush raised $15 million last month, Kerry raised $1 million PER DAY last month!

[markses]

4. Those $2000 personal donation

Distributed across family members...eventually hit the limit.

Bush may have crested early on this, and he must be steaming mad that $126 million in spending has produced, as we say in Brooklyn, oogatz.

And they made fun of Dean! Talk about wastrel.

[Mz Pip]

2. This sounds like

Kerry has a good shot at coming close to Bush in fundraising if he keeps up this pace.

Bush has been raising money for years. Kerry has been at it for just a couple of months.

Bush has used up 126 million and is behind in many of the polls. Sweet.

MzPip
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[beyurslf]

3. If this keeps up, they will be money parity by the end of this month!

[Tellurian]

5. Probably why Bush asked for budget money NOW!

he'll use "our" money to fund the balance of his campaign..

I hope Congress is wise to their amoral tactics and stalls away.