Notes:
Bush:  Bush-Cheney '04 fundraising continued breaking records, bringing in $49.5 million in contributions from 262,000 contributors in all 50 states and in 3,115 out of 3,141 counties.  Total receipts were $50 million.  Of the $49.5 million, the campaign reported $41.1 million was raised through events, $7.9 million with direct mail, and $1.4 million online.  The campaign finished the quarter with over $70 million in cash on hand.
 

Clark:  The Clark campaign brought in $3.5 million in contributions in just two weeks (Clark announced his candidacy on Sept. 17).  The campaign reported approximately 21,000 donors, an average contribution of $167, and about two-thirds of the money raised on line.  It finished the quarter with $3.4 million in cash on hand.
 

Dean:  Dean for America weighed in with "the largest FEC report ever compiled by a Democratic presidential campaign."  The campaign raised $14.8 million during the quarter, eclipsing the record held by Bill Clinton, when he was the incumbent president.  The average donation for the quarter was $73.69 and the average online donation was $61.14.  Roughly $7.3-7.4 million was raised over the Internet.  Over 10,000 people hosted or attended house parties in the quarter; one highlight was the world record largest conference call involving 3,466 people.  Ten days out from the end of the quarter, Joe Trippi set a goal of $15 million by the end of the quarter.  At that point the campaign had raised $9.7 million.  The baseball bat graphic  was posted on the campaign's  web site (actually five $1 million bats) .  The campaign met the challenge of the five bats, but it fell a tad short of the $15 million; Trippi took responsibility for the "rounding error."   Some reporters questioned the campaign's burn rate, the $8.8 million spent in the quarter.  Campaign manager Joe Trippi responded that "running a national campaign is expensive" and pointed to investments such as the Sleepless Summer tour, staff in about a dozen states, and advertising in a number of states.  Further $12.4 million in cash on hand placed the campaign well ahead of the nearest Democratic competitor (although well behind President Bush).  Trippi said the campaign had had to boost its compliance staff to meet the challenge of getting the report done in 15 days--when printed out the report was over six feet tall.  "The FEC is going to have to change all these regulations," Trippi said.  Looking to the future, the campaign appeared in good shape; fewer than 1 percent of donors had contributed the maximum $2,000, leaving them free to make further contributions.  Still under consideration is whether the campaign will opt in or opt out of public financing.
 

Edwards:  The campaign's Oct. 15 press release highlighted its total receipts for 2003, which at $14.5 million were the third highest total of the Democratic presidential campaigns ("Edwards Number Three in Total Raised").  However, total receipts for the third quarter were just $2.6 million, placing the campaign sixth behind Dean, Kerry, Gephardt, Lieberman and Clark.  And, that figure included $460,609.00 transfered from Edwards' Senate committee.  Further, the campaign spent $5.9 million for the quarter, or more than twice what it brought in.  Campaign Manager Nick Baldick stated, "Our goal from the beginning of the year was to raise $20 million this year, and we are on track to meet that goal."  Through the end of the 3rd Quarter, the campaign reported spending $715,920.31 in Iowa, $535,872.17 in New Hampshire, $370,146.56 in South Carolina, and $196,591.98 in Oklahoma.
 

Gephardt: Gephardt's fundraising, while not stellar, has been consistent.  The $3.8 million the campaign raised placed Gephardt third for the quarter and roughly matched its 2nd Quarter total.  However the campaign spent  $4.2 million, reducing cash on hand to $5.9 million.
 

Graham: Sen. Graham ended his campaign shortly after the end of the 3rd Quarter, on October 6.  His campaign raised just $1.4 million in the quarter, putting him eighth among the Democratic candidates.
 

Kerry:  $4 million raised in the quarter put the Kerry campaign a distant second among the Democratic candidates, more than $10 million behind the Dean campaign.  Also in this quarter Kerry's campaign spent $3 million more than it brought in.  The campaign earned some positive press by releasing a list of its top fundraisers.  (An Oct. 21 editorial in the Washington Post said the release of the list "puts him in the forefront of meaningful disclosure.")  The list showed 30 fundraisers who raised $100,000 or more and 79 who raised between $50,000 and $100,000.
 

Kucinich:  The campaign's Oct. 15 press release opened, "While many presidential campaigns decline in fundraising, the insurgent Kucinich campaign today is filing its financial statement showing an increase."   The increase was modest to be sure, from $1.56 million to $1.66 million.  According to the campaign, the average donation for the quarter was $72.  The campaign reported that much of the total was raised on the Internet, that nearly $1million was raised in September, and that house parties around the country on September 21 raised nearly $300,000.
 

Lieberman:  The campaign's Oct. 15 press release highlighted "raising $11.76 million in the first three quarters of 2003," then noted that it raised $3.6 million in the quarter.  The campaign spent slightly less than what it brought in to finish with $4 million in cash on hand.  The campaign reported more than 11,000 contributions in the quarter.

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