The UK in Exile wrote:Galiantus wrote:Ok, I did this on my own:
http://www.opensecrets.org/pres12/
..............Barack Obama (D)....Mitt Romney (R)
Raised.....$300,134,364 .........$153,537,758
Spent......$204,901,024 .........$131,044,967
Debts......$2,388,104 ............$0
Cash........$97,536,739 ..........$22,505,830
...............................Obama...........Romney
Small Indiv Contrib.....$121,550,222....$25,524,381
Large Indiv. Contrib....$181,407,165....$128,280,356
Obama has raised nearly 2 times as much money as Romney. He has spent over $70 million more than Romney, and on hand he has over 4x the amount Romney has raised. In the way of large contributions, Romney has raised a higher PERCENTAGE of his money from "large individual contributions", but total Obama has raised over $50 million more in that category. That's assuming those were all rich people, too.
too bad it doesn't count....
SUPER-PACS!
If you're actually interested.
I know I'M not doing any of the number-crunching on that one though.