$32,000,000

I predicted right before the Iowa caucuses that one of the biggest impacts of “The First Campaign” would be how it would change the fundraising equation. What used to be a multi-week effort to get dollars in the door after a major win has been shortened to just hours. We saw this in 2000 on John McCain’s campaign and in 2004 with Howard Dean and John Kerry after he secured the nomination.
Nevertheless Barack Obama’s announcement this weekend that he raised $32 million in January