April 02, 2007
The Three Numbers That Matter
For each candidate, three numbers matter today for three different reasons.
1 -- total amount of primary receipts this quarter -- reflects their professional and political connections (think Romney), campaign organization and grassroots enthusiasm. For some candidates, connections are more generous than grassroots enthusiasm; for others, like Obama, they're not really important at all.
2. -- total amount of primary contributions, including transfers -- reflects the actual amount of money a candidate can spend.
3. Cash on hand -- how much they've spent so far, how efficiently their campaign handled its start-up costs, how much they had to spend as of March 31. This is a business. Campaign managers are still in their CEO phase.
Take Rudy Giuliani as an example.
Number 1 -- $14M+
Number 2 -- nearly $17M
Number 3 -- $10M (meaning that the campaign has spent $7m so far).
Hillary Clinton:
Number 1 -- We don't know. We assume that it's around $20M, based on sources, but the campaign won't confirm that.
Number 2 -- Number One + Approx. $10.8M, so let's assume around $31M. A very big number.
Number 3 -- We don't know yet. But we'll assume that it's more than $15M. Very healthy.
Mitt Romney
Number 1: $21.7M -- that's probably the most -- or second most, depending on Obama's numbers.
Number 2: $23M.
Number 3: We don't know yet.
Posted at 12:37 PM
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Obama's dollar amount. Anyone, anyone know?
hiltopred | 04.02.07 01:17 PM
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How about Ron Paul or John Cox?
Colton | 04.04.07 02:23 PM
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