{"id":1886,"date":"2007-06-25T08:20:00","date_gmt":"2007-06-25T14:20:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nmpolitics.net\/index\/2007\/06\/guv-could-catch-edwards-in-fundraising-this-quarter\/"},"modified":"2007-06-25T08:20:00","modified_gmt":"2007-06-25T14:20:00","slug":"guv-could-catch-edwards-in-fundraising-this-quarter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/2007\/06\/guv-could-catch-edwards-in-fundraising-this-quarter\/","title":{"rendered":"Guv could catch Edwards in fundraising this quarter"},"content":{"rendered":"

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There appears to be a chance Gov. Bill Richardson<\/a> will surpass John Edwards<\/a> in fundraising during the second quarter of 2007, which ends Saturday.<\/p>\n

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Richardson<\/st1:place><\/st1:city> raised $6.2 million during the first quarter, falling far behind Hillary Clinton<\/a>, who raised $26 million, and Barack Obama<\/a>, who raised almost $26 million. Edwards raised $14 million, and Chris Dodd<\/a> raised almost $9 million, but more than half had been transferred from his Senate campaign account.<\/p>\n

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Richardson<\/st1:place><\/st1:city>\u2019s campaign has said all along that it hoped to surpass its first-quarter total during the second quarter, and spokesman Pahl Shipley said this weekend that the campaign is \u201con goal and on budget,\u201d but would not get more specific.<\/p>\n

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Meanwhile, the Edwards campaign sent an e-mail to supporters this weekend saying it was \u201cclosing in on $7 million\u201d and hoping to reach $9 million before the end of June, when the quarter ends. Edwards\u2019 Web site says he has raised $6.7 million this quarter.<\/p>\n

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And the Washington Post<\/a> reported this weekend that Richardson<\/st1:place><\/st1:city> \u201chas told other Democrats that he expects to raise more money than Edwards this quarter.\u201d Clinton and Obama are both expected to raise more than $25 million again this quarter.<\/p>\n

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Catching or surpassing Edwards in the money game could be a big boost to Richardson<\/st1:place><\/st1:city>\u2019s campaign and a blow to Edwards. Depending on how much Richardson<\/st1:place><\/st1:city> raises, his total could vault him into the top tier of candidates, but I don\u2019t want to exaggerate the potential. Richardson<\/st1:place><\/st1:city> might barely beat his first quarter total, and Edwards could get closer to $9 million, and there wouldn\u2019t be much change.<\/p>\n

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The reality is most likely somewhere in the middle. Richardson<\/st1:city><\/st1:place> will probably do better than last time, and Edwards isn\u2019t going to raise as much as he did in the first quarter. It\u2019s too early to know which candidate, however, will come out on top.<\/p>\n

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There is one big difference between the two candidates \u2013 electability. In the latest Rasmussen Reports<\/a> survey on Richardson<\/st1:place><\/st1:city>, he trailed two of the GOP frontrunners in head-to-head competition – Rudy Giuliani<\/a> 43 percent to 39 percent and John McCain<\/a> 43 percent to 38 percent. Though Richardson<\/st1:place><\/st1:city> had gained in the early June survey compared to one conducted in April, Edwards is way ahead of two GOP frontrunners in the report\u2019s newest survey<\/a>, released Thursday.<\/p>\n

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Edwards was beating McCain 49-36 percent \u2013 doubling his lead over the last survey in May. He was leading Mitt Romney<\/a> 51-33 percent in the poll, with Romney gaining slightly since May.<\/p>\n

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Even if voters don\u2019t take him as seriously as Clinton or Obama, Edwards\u2019 strength is that voters know and like him. Plus, he\u2019s from the South, and the Democrats have a long record of sending southerners to the White House.<\/p>\n

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Though Edwards\u2019 campaign has faltered during the second quarter of 2007, he could easily turn things around. Besting Richardson<\/st1:place><\/st1:city> in fundraising this quarter would help stop his slide in the polls.<\/p>\n

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Beating Edwards in fundraising would be quite an accomplishment for the Richardson<\/st1:place><\/st1:city> campaign. We\u2019ll know by mid-July, and probably sooner, how it turns out.<\/p>\n

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A prior version of this posting incorrectly stated that Clinton<\/st1:place><\/st1:City> raised $36 million during the first quarter.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

There appears to be a chance Gov. Bill Richardson will surpass John Edwards in fundraising during the second quarter of 2007, which ends Saturday. Richardson raised $6.2 million during the first quarter, falling far behind Hillary Clinton, who raised $26 million, and Barack Obama, who raised almost $26 million. Edwards raised $14 million, and Chris […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1886","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1886","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1886"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1886\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1886"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1886"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1886"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}