Politics is always about money and influence and every candidate for the Presidential chair in the United States, knows it. Since all these candidates should report their balances every three months today we’ve found out a few interesting things in the Democrat Party.

The battle for the top fund raiser is very tough now that Hillary Rodham Clinton managed to gather for the presidential primaries, $27M in the 3rd quarter of 2008, of which $5M will be used in the general election while her biggest rival, Barack Obama, didn’t do that good with only $19M for the primaries and $1M for general election. The two candidates have been running head-to-head since the beginning but it looks like Clinton is ready to take the lead with a total of $80M in fund-raising or donors while Obama is behind by $1M. However the real figures each of them has on hand, wasn’t disclosed.

With the money raised by the two senators only, the Democrat Party is leading the all time fund raising for presidential elections. So are you sure why wars start, these days? It’s all about money!

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Tags: 2008 elections, Barack Obama, Democrat Party, fund raising, Hillary Clinton, Money, presidential elections