March & Q1 Fundraising #s

[Tender Branson]

April 16, 2012

President Obama's re-election campaign and the DNC raised a combined $53 million in March, the Obama camp announced in a video. They raised $45 million in February and $29 million in January.

http://politicalwire.com/archives/2012/04/16/obama_campaign_releases_fundraising_numbers.html

[Tender Branson]

50-60 Mio. per month is not bad I guess. If they can raise 60 Mio. in the next 7.25 months - it'll be 435 Mio., for a total of 562 Mio. in 2012 and 786 Mio. for the 2012 cycle.

Here are the full quarterly OFA/DNC/OVF/SSFV figures:

Q1 2012: 127 Mio. $
Q4 2011:   68 Mio. $
Q3 2011:   70 Mio. $
Q2 2011:   86 Mio. $

Obama started his campaign on April 4, 2011 - at the start of Q2 2011.

[BlueSwan]

What would we expect Romney + Super PACs to raise in comparison?

[Tender Branson]

What would we expect Romney + Super PACs to raise in comparison?

About the same amount I guess.

Romney can raise 20 Mio. per month, his SuperPAC about 10 Mio., Karl Rove's Crossroads about 15 Mio. and the RNC about 15 Mio. too

So, about 60 Mio. alltogether as well. But these are just estimates.

[BlueSwan]

So in your estimation neither part will have a major financial advantage over the other? What if Romney decided to spend a major part of his personal fortune on his campaign? That could potentially be a big advantage. I mean, what else does he need all that money for?

[HagridOfTheDeep]

On the other hand, that could be hugely politically damaging.

[Tender Branson]

March 2012 fundraising numbers:

  35.080 Mio. $ - Obama for America
  17.851 Mio. $ - DNC
    0.361 Mio. $ - Swing State Victory Fund
    2.506 Mio. $ - Priorities USA Action

  13.062 Mio. $ - Romney
    8.684 Mio. $ - Romney SuperPAC
  13.748 Mio. $ - RNC
    1.232 Mio. $ - Crossroads GPS (Karl Rove)

March 2012 cash-on-hand numbers:

104.096 Mio. $ - Obama for America
  24.445 Mio. $ - DNC
    3.746 Mio. $ - Obama Victory Fund
    2.790 Mio. $ - Swing State Victory Fund
    5.033 Mio. $ - Priorities USA Action

  10.060 Mio. $ - Romney
    6.454 Mio. $ - Romney SuperPAC
  32.744 Mio. $ - RNC
  24.373 Mio. $ - Crossroads GPS (Karl Rove)

March 2012 debt numbers:

    0.305 Mio. $ - Obama for America
    4.958 Mio. $ - DNC
    0.048 Mio. $ - Obama Victory Fund
           No debt - Swing State Victory Fund
           No debt - Priorities USA Action

           No debt - Romney
           No debt - Romney SuperPAC
    9.900 Mio. $ - RNC
           No debt - Crossroads GPS (Karl Rove)

[Tender Branson]

Total Spending Power @ the end of March (cash-on hand minus debt):

DEMS:

134.8 Mio. $

GOP:

63.7 Mio. $

[King]

Typical totalitarian socialist Obama keeping all the campaign fundraising to himself instead of letting private industry compete and have the market decide who runs the best Obama 2012 campaign.

[InsaneTrollLogic]

Typical totalitarian socialist brown person Obama keeping all the campaign fundraising to himself instead of letting private industry compete and have the market decide who runs the best Obama 2012 campaign.

[Tender Branson]

For example, the Bush-Cheney 2004 campaign had just 87 Mio. $ left at the end of March 2004:

http://www.gwu.edu/~action/2004/bush/bushfin.html

[Bacon King]

For example, the Bush-Cheney 2004 campaign had just 87 Mio. $ left at the end of March 2004:

http://www.gwu.edu/~action/2004/bush/bushfin.html

But Bush/Cheney accepted public financing for the general election, so that money wasn't meant to last until November, only until August, so note that when making comparisons to the present.