Time magazine is reporting that Hillary Clinton leads Obama in the cash-on-hand race, and her website provides even greater detail: she has $35M on hand for the primary, and $15M on hand for the general.
Clinton deserves credit for running an efficient, cost-effective and intelligent campaign.
From Time:
SOURCES TELL THE PAGE: CLINTON WILL SHOW APPROXIMATELY $35 MILLION TO OBAMA’S $32 MILLION, REVERSING OBAMA’S SECOND-QUARTER ADVANTAGE
The Republican front-runners stand as follows:
Giuliani: $11.6 million cash on hand, spent $13 million.
Thompson: $7.1 million cash on hand, spent $678,000.
Huckabee: $650,000 cash on hand, spent $820,000.
The Associated Press reports:
Democrat Hillary Rodham Clinton ended September with more money in the bank than rival Barack Obama, holding $35 million cash on hand for the presidential primary contests to his $32 million. [edit]
Clinton, who had trailed Obama in fundraising and in money in the bank at the end of June, edged past him with an aggressive third quarter of fundraising.
Neither Obama nor Clinton had yet filed detailed reports of their third-quarter finances with the Federal Election Commission. The reports were due at 11:59 p.m. EDT Monday.
Clinton, who also has been raising money for the general election, had a total of $50 million in the bank, her campaign said Monday night. But $15 million of that cannot be used for the primaries.
Obama had a similar cash-on-hand amount at the end of June, meaning he likely spent the $20 million he has reported raising from July through September. Clinton appears to have spent less than the $22 million she raised for the primary.[edit]
Obama ramped up his advertising toward the end of third quarter. He has placed more than 4,200 spots on television, practically all of it in Iowa. Clinton has placed nearly 2,200 spots, with more than 1,600 airing in Iowa. According to Nielsen, Clinton has also placed a small number of ads in a number of other states, including New York, Tennessee, Louisiana and Arizona.
Give 'em Hill! :)
SOURCES:
http://thepage.time.com/
http://news.yahoo.com/...
http://www.hillaryhub.com/