Live totals: Obama donations break $7 million

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[The following graphic is hosted at an external campaign website and is not endorsed by Raw Story.] According to Sen. Barack Obama's (D-IL) campaign website, his current fundraising total since Feb. 5 is:

WIRED: EARLY THURSDAY: "Illinois senator Barack Obama raised more than $6 million since the polls closed on Super Tuesday, matching the one-day fund-raising record set by Texas Republican congressman Ron Paul in December.

That's according to a widget on Obama's blog, which as of 10.27 pm Wednesday night showed that the senator's campaign had raised $6.23 million. The widget is updated almost instantaneously as donations pour in.

Supporters responded to a late afternoon fund-raising e-mail sent out by Obama campaign manager David Plouffe that said that the campaign had raised $3 million post Super Tuesday, but that the it needed to match the $5 million that rival Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton had loaned her own campaign in January.

That $5 million was made to supplement the $13 million that Clinton raised that month. Obama raised more than double that amount with $32 million -- the majority of which came through the Internet.

Full Wired story here.



