Obama Raised $66m in August; $77m on Hand Sep 1

The Obama for America campaign released some preliminary details of its fundraising totals for the month of August: a record $66 million. The Democratic presidential candidate ended the month with $77 million on hand.

From The New York Times:

David Plouffe, the Obama campaign manager, said a half-million new donors signed up to give money to Mr. Obama. He said the campaign’s bank account had $77 million at the end of last month.

“The 500,000 new donors to the Obama campaign demonstrate just how strongly the American people are looking to kick the special interests out and change Washington,” Mr. Plouffe said in a statement, adding that more than 2.5 million people have now made contributions to the campaign in the last 19 months.

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