Published 8/15/2008
by Domenico Montanaro
at First Read
From NBC's Domenico MontanaroThe McCain campaign announced it raised a campaign record $27 million in July, campaign manager Rick Davis said on a conference call with reporters. While the figure is a campaign record, it is less than half of Obama's biggest one-month haul -- $55 million in February of this year, which helped finance his primary battle with Hillary Clinton. In June, Obama raised $52 million. But Obama has had to raise more, in part, because the Democratic National Committee had been...( read more )
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