Romney raises $111.8 million in October

Mitt Romney's campaign announced this morning that the GOP ticket and the Republican National Committee raised $111.8 million between Oct. 1 and Oct. 17.

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It's an impressive number, especially given how many months they've now broken the $100 million number. This period includes all three presidential debates and the VP debate, when Romney's strong performance in the first debate especially helped bring in a flurry of donations.

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The campaign still has just more than $169 million on hand as of Oct. 17, which is a big war chest for the final few weeks of the campaign and enough to really flood the airwaves with ads now through Nov. 6.

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