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.

[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.

[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. $

[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