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Perry Outraised Romney In 6 Weeks, To Romney’s 12 Weeks?

By: wonkish1 (Diary)  |  October 5th, 2011 at 06:45 AM  | 

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This is the new story on the fundraising front.

First a Romney insider came out saying that they had raised $13-14 million in Q3. That makes it Romney’s worst Q in this cycle and in 08.

Source: http://www.businessweek.com/news/2011-09-30/romney-campaign-said-to-raise-up-to-14-million-in-quarter.html

 

Then not to long after that3  sources in the Perry campaign said they had raised at least $10 million exceeding their target for Q3. So it was believed that Perry had fallen short of Romney’s numbers.

Source: http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/10/03/us-usa-campaign-perry-fundraising-idUSTRE7925M620111003

 

Now a new article has come out. And now sources close to the Perry campaign are claiming that Perry has raised about $15 million for Q3. Now I don’t want to get hopes to up here for you Perry supporters. There is 2 things that are odd about these comments.

1) Is that usually campaigns aren’t tthhaatttt good at keeping a lid on the numbers before they officially release them to public especially when you have the media thinking your going underperform your opponent when you actually have overperformed him. If this is actually true Perry’s team is very good at preventing leeks.

2) The $15 million is mentioned kind of “off the cuff” in an article about Perry’s Deputy Finance Director leaving the campaign. News of a candidate blowing out fundraising expectations is not a side note to an article about a staffer leaving, its almost front page news on several political sites. So I find that weird, too.

But here’s the source: http://www.politico.com/news/stories/1011/65108.html

 

 

Update: So a couple hours after I posted this the Drudge Headline was that Perry raised $17 million. I guess Perry’s team is very good about keeping its mouth shut and not leaking to the press.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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  • carolina

    I hope this holds true. I do think it is Perry’s race to lose. Unfortunately, his debate performances have been losers.
    I just have to keep reminding myself that ANY GOP candidate is better than BO.

  • rechts

    Perry’s immigration stuff might tick off average conservatives, but it probably pleases chamber of commerce Republicans with deep pockets.

    The last thing they want to have to do is hire Americans, when immigrants will work for next to nothing.

  • carolina

    I hope this holds true. I do think it is Perry’s race to lose. Unfortunately, his debate performances have been losers.
    I just have to keep reminding myself that ANY GOP candidate is better than BO.

  • tyman

    in the same quarter.

    While this is true for the whole quarter, Perry did it in only HALF a quarter.

    So, again, Romney’s distorting the truth.

  • wonkish1

    The Romney news pieces I’ve seen over the last few weeks have been showing $13-14 million.

  • tyman

    Maybe they were referring to the first quarter they announced? Or the previous quarter?

    I think Romney took in $18.3 milllion in the previous quarter. But, Perry’s take was particularly impressive considering that the summer is slower.

  • Scope

    would wait to see what Perry raised in order to put out their numbers. Agree that Perry’s numbers are very impressive for only being in for less than a half quarter.

  • californiagold

    The politico report suggests that of the 17 million raised by the Perry campaign, 15 million is in the bank. That means Perry has been very frugal in his campaign thus far. It also means that as the primary dates draw closer, the Perry campaign will have the resources to purchase TV ads allowing him to compete with Romney in states like Florida.