The Obama campaign announced today and reported by Politico.com that they received more than 442,000 contributors, which gave his campaign more than $40 million in the month of March. That is short of the record $55M Obama raised in the previous month of February, but reportedly roughly two-times what Clinton is currently estimated to have raised in the month of March. She plans to release her totals sometime later this month. (The longer we wait the rumored less than $20M the actual figure will be, further the press is interested what how much the contributions are for the general campaign and how much is for the nomination. Obama's camp stated that more than 218,000 donors who contributed for the first time to the campaign averaging just under $100 ($96).
Campaign manager David Plouffe said: “Sen. Obama has always said that this campaign would rise or fall on the willingness of the American people to become partners in an effort to change our politics and start a new chapter in our history. ... Today we’re seeing the American people’s extraordinary desire to change Washington, as tens of thousands of new contributors joined the more than a million Americans who have already taken ownership of this campaign for change. Many of our contributors are volunteering for the campaign, making our campaign the largest grass-roots army in recent political history.”
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