President Barack Obama and allied Democratic Party committees raised $181 million in September, the largest monthly total in his re-election effort.
The money, announced by the campaign this morning on Twitter, includes his campaign committee as well as the Democratic National Committee and state parties, which can take in larger contributions than the candidate.
Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney has yet to announce his September fundraising totals in advance of the Oct. 20 deadline.
Through Aug. 31, Obama’s campaign committee brought in $441.3 million to $283.6 million for Romney, and had $88.8 million to spend entering the fall campaign. That compares with $50.4 million in the Republican nominee’s campaign bank account.
When the aligned political parties and super-political action committees were added in, Romney entered September with more cash to spend, $165 million to $101 million.
The Obama campaign said it received donations from 1.8 million people last month, including 567,000 first-time donors. The campaign has received more than 10 million contributions from 3.9 million individuals.
Today’s announcement didn’t break down how much money went to the campaign committee, directly controlled by Obama’s re- election team, and how much went to the party committees. Nor did it provide a cash-on-hand figure. That information is due at the Federal Election Commission Oct. 20.
[h=2]New Ads[/h]The two candidates also began running new campaign advertisements attacking each other.
An Obama campaign ad accused Romney of being “dishonest” when he said during the Oct. 3 presidential debate that he hasn’t proposed a $5 trillion tax cut.
Romney’s tax plan would reduce income-tax rates across the board, costing the U.S., Treasury $480 billion a year starting in 2015, according to a March study by the Tax Policy Center. That amounts to $4.8 trillion over 10 years. The Republican nominee has said he will end or reduce unspecified tax breaks to pay for lowering the rates.
The Romney campaign ad featured a woman who said she voted for Obama in 2008, the second commercial in two days with a former supporter of the president. In the ad, small-business owner Melanie McNamara said Romney will improve the economy and create jobs. “That’s important to women, and it’s important to me,” she said.
[h=2]Women Voters[/h]Polls show Romney trailing among women voters while leading among men.
In an e-mail to supporters, Obama campaign manager Jim Messina said the re-election committee opened its 100th field office in both Florida and Ohio and registered 10,000 voters in Florida in one day this week.
“There is exactly one month left to go until Election Day,” Messina said in seeking more donations. “The stakes are too high for us to take our foot off the gas now.”
In September 2008, Obama, the first major-party nominee since the Watergate scandal in the 1970s to shun federal funding for the general election, pulled in $153 million and the Democratic National Committee raised another $42 million for a total of $195 million. Both Obama and Romney this year have declined federal funding and are financing their campaigns totally with private donations.
To contact the reporter on this story: Jonathan D. Salant in Washington at [email protected].
To contact the editor responsible for this story: Jeanne Cummings at [email protected]
The money, announced by the campaign this morning on Twitter, includes his campaign committee as well as the Democratic National Committee and state parties, which can take in larger contributions than the candidate.
Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney has yet to announce his September fundraising totals in advance of the Oct. 20 deadline.
Through Aug. 31, Obama’s campaign committee brought in $441.3 million to $283.6 million for Romney, and had $88.8 million to spend entering the fall campaign. That compares with $50.4 million in the Republican nominee’s campaign bank account.
When the aligned political parties and super-political action committees were added in, Romney entered September with more cash to spend, $165 million to $101 million.
The Obama campaign said it received donations from 1.8 million people last month, including 567,000 first-time donors. The campaign has received more than 10 million contributions from 3.9 million individuals.
Today’s announcement didn’t break down how much money went to the campaign committee, directly controlled by Obama’s re- election team, and how much went to the party committees. Nor did it provide a cash-on-hand figure. That information is due at the Federal Election Commission Oct. 20.
[h=2]New Ads[/h]The two candidates also began running new campaign advertisements attacking each other.
An Obama campaign ad accused Romney of being “dishonest” when he said during the Oct. 3 presidential debate that he hasn’t proposed a $5 trillion tax cut.
Romney’s tax plan would reduce income-tax rates across the board, costing the U.S., Treasury $480 billion a year starting in 2015, according to a March study by the Tax Policy Center. That amounts to $4.8 trillion over 10 years. The Republican nominee has said he will end or reduce unspecified tax breaks to pay for lowering the rates.
The Romney campaign ad featured a woman who said she voted for Obama in 2008, the second commercial in two days with a former supporter of the president. In the ad, small-business owner Melanie McNamara said Romney will improve the economy and create jobs. “That’s important to women, and it’s important to me,” she said.
[h=2]Women Voters[/h]Polls show Romney trailing among women voters while leading among men.
In an e-mail to supporters, Obama campaign manager Jim Messina said the re-election committee opened its 100th field office in both Florida and Ohio and registered 10,000 voters in Florida in one day this week.
“There is exactly one month left to go until Election Day,” Messina said in seeking more donations. “The stakes are too high for us to take our foot off the gas now.”
In September 2008, Obama, the first major-party nominee since the Watergate scandal in the 1970s to shun federal funding for the general election, pulled in $153 million and the Democratic National Committee raised another $42 million for a total of $195 million. Both Obama and Romney this year have declined federal funding and are financing their campaigns totally with private donations.
To contact the reporter on this story: Jonathan D. Salant in Washington at [email protected].
To contact the editor responsible for this story: Jeanne Cummings at [email protected]