Obama raises 66 MILLION in August!

WASHINGTON — Sen. Barack Obama’s presidential campaign announced Sunday that it raised $66 million in August, marking another record fundraising month for the Democrat. The August total was second to the $55 million Obama raised last February.

He reached the $66 million mark with help from more than a half million new donors.

Obama’s total for August was almost $20 million more than the $47 million Republican rival John McCain raised last month.

Let’s make September even better!

And he also notes that John McCain will raise everyone’s taxes via a new tax on your health care benefits.

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More like this please!

I’ll keep this short and sweet! It’s as easy as one, two, three! Calculate your Obama tax cut.
I saved over 3,900.00!

Summering with a Hillary supporter has been trying, to say the least. However, sometimes between the “Obama has to throw a punch” and the constant citing of the doom and gloom daily Gallop poll the debate triggers a “light bulb over the head” moment.

This Hillary supporter doesn’t recognize what Obama is doing because he’s never seen anything like it.

While millions may be spent on advertising, so too is one campaign spending millions on ground game while the other is spending virtually nothing. Obama is investing more massively than any campaign in the history of American politics on the ground game. McCain is essentially not investing in ground. His early summer numbers of 20,000 phone calls nationwide for a whole month would be those of a single, low-budget House campaign. That’s the equivalent of one person working ten hours a day for a month. For the entire nation. It’s basically the equivalent of zero contacts. When Martin writes that McCain’s ground campaign is revving up, it’s essentially starting from nothing and is now in 1st gear.

Obama is doing exactly what he needs to do. He’s registering new voters. After all, elections are the ultimate numbers game. It’s a ground game, as well, and one McCain has completely ignored.

How many new voters tip Virginia, Colorado, etc. from red to blue? Bet the Obama camp knows.

Obama raised 52 million in the month of June.

The numbers are in for June, and they put to rest some of the fretting over whether his money machine was slowing.

Tough to be the Wall Street Journal, which last week reported that Obama would bring in just a little over $30 million.

From an email to supporters from Obama campaign manager David Plouffe:

We have some big news we want to share with you.
Because of your generosity and commitment, we’re reporting to the press today that this campaign is in a very strong financial position.

In the month of June, supporters like you helped raise $52 million.

But more impressive than the number is how you did it. Hundreds of thousands of ordinary people contributed to building our campaign for change. Many were first-time donors, giving only what they could afford — and the average donation was just $68.

Hmmm… How did the Wall Street Journal get it so wrong? 22 million is a big number. Coincidentally, it’s also the exact amount the McCain campaign raised in June. Oh, the irony!