First quarter fundraising #s

[Mr. Morden]

Romney and Pawlenty have both released the fundraising #s for the first quarter of 2010 for their respective PACs:

link

You must be logged in to read this quote.

No #s from anyone else yet.  I think some of them are structured so that they only report twice a year anyway, so I'm not sure who we'll be hearing from.

[Mr. Morden]

http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0410/35770.html

You must be logged in to read this quote.

Only $9500 of that money she raised was spent on donations to candidates.

So, for 1st quarter fundraising #s, we have:

Romney $1.45 million
Pawlenty $556,000
Palin $400,000

[Mr. Morden]

Thune raised $1 million for his reelection campaign in the first quarter of the year:

http://www.kxnet.com/getArticle.asp?ArticleId=555268

He now has $6.5 million in his campaign account.  Since he faces no Democratic opponent this year, he doesn't really have to spend any of it.  He'd also be legally clear to transfer as much of this $ as he wants to a presidential campaign, should he decide to run.