Bush, Kerry Awash in Money

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Bush, Kerry Awash in Money

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By Lisa Getter Times Staff Writer

WASHINGTON — This year's presidential race — fueled by more than a million donors, including many who have never given before — is well on its way to becoming the country's first $1-billion political campaign, experts say.

The money is coming in small donations and large ones, online and in the mail, from wealthy philanthropists and immigrants who can't even vote. In part, it represents unprecedented interest in the campaign from people throughout the country.

Together, President Bush (news - web sites) and his presumptive challenger, Sen. John F. Kerry, have drawn money from 700,000 more individual donors than those who contributed to Bush and Democrat Al Gore (news - web sites) in the entire 2000 campaign, according to figures provided to The Times by the three campaigns.

Already, donations to Bush, Kerry and the Democrats who had contested the Massachusetts senator for the party's nomination have exceeded more than $400 million — more than double what was raised at this point four years ago.

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[quispquake]

1. I'm sure Kerry has gotten 95% of the new donations...

This article (of course) makes it look like Bush is also getting lots of small donations, which is false...

[LynzM]

2. Yeah, I imagine most of Bush's is BIG money...

Kerry's getting a lot of little internet donations... I think he's raised about 30% of his money online, and Bush about 3% (don't remember where those numbers are from, read 'em last night...)

[mobuto]

4. The last I saw, 2/3 of Bush's money came from $2000 contributors

the legal limit. The Democrats are wisely going after small contributions this cycle - but a lot of people, starting with Terry McAuliffe and going on down - aren't entirely comfortable with the idea. So prove them wrong - show that it is possible to raise at least as much, in $100 or $250 contributions, as they would otherwise raise in $10,000 or $25,0000 contributions.

[leetrisck]

3. Look at the breakdown of the

money. This article and breakdown was just shown on C-Span. Bush people are using this to raise more money - Kerry doesn't have near the money bush has.

[mobuto]

5. Not nearly awash enough

if we're going to be able to beat the combined Bush/RNC/News Corp/etc. giant.

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