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Marc Ambinder - Marc Ambinder is the White House correspondent for National Journal and a contributing editor at The Atlantic. More

Marc Ambinder is the White House correspondent for National Journal. He previously served as the politics editor, and is now a contributing editor, for The Atlantic, where he curated the influential Politics channel on TheAtlantic.com and contributed to the magazine. He was also a chief political consultant to CBS News. Earlier, at NJ's Hotline, Ambinder was the founding editor of "Hotline On Call," a pathbreaking political news blog. He also worked as a producer and reporter for the ABC News Political Unit and was one of the founders of ABC's "The Note." Born in New York City, raised in Central Florida, Ambinder is a 2001 graduate of Harvard and lives in Washington, D.C.
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Obama: $15M in 10 Days?

By Marc Ambinder

Apr 23 2008, 7:02 PM ET Comment

Reader A.M. writes:

Since there were several blogs about Clinton's fundraising on your site last night, here are some numbers that I've been tracking from Obama's site, which has a '# of new donors' ticker. He has added 100,000 new donors to his fundraising machine in the last 10 days! Current ticker: 1,406,448 now. April 14 ticker: 1,309,965 (@8pm PDT) This includes:

~ 35,000 new donors in the last 24 hours
~ 70,000 new donors since the ABC debate

I'd estimate that even more existing donors have donated again (by a factor of 2 or 3?) in the same period... Using conservative estimates, if 250,000 new & existing donors donated in the last 10 days and their average donation was $60ea ... that's $15 million in 10 days (and judging by the 'activity' on DailyKos after the ABC debate, this estimate is likely quite low.) $15m in 10 days. Without as much as lifting a finger? Who cares about Location, location, location?
Delegates, Delegates, Delegates? Fundraising, Fundraising, Fundraising. Ditto.


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