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New York TimesBy MICHAEL COOPER and ARON PILHOFER
Published: October 16, 2007
The leading Democratic presidential candidates raised twice as much money as their Republican counterparts this summer, according to campaign finance reports filed yesterday, and several major candidates spent more money than they raised.
The reports vividly illustrated the fund-raising advantage Democrats have enjoyed so far this year as they try to recapture the White House after seven years of Republican control.
The Democrats were led by Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton of New York, who reported raising $23.7 million this summer for the primaries and whose campaign said it had about $35 million left for the primaries. Mrs. Clinton was left with more primary money in the bank than her nearest rival, Senator Barack Obama of Illinois, for the first time. Mr. Obama reported raising more than $20 million over the summer for the primaries and having $32 million left for the primaries.
The leading Republican candidates, by comparison, raised much less and were left with much less for their primaries....
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