The Daily 2008

You might have missed it yesterday with everything going on in Major League Baseball and the NFL, but Sept. 30 was the third quarter fundraising deadline. What numbers are coming out aren't all that surprising, but here's some rough estimates from the campaigns (Matthew Mosk, Washington Post):

Obama and Clinton: $17 million each.
Romney: $10 million (with perhaps another $6 to $7 million of his own personal wealth).
Edward: $7 million.
Richardson: $5.2 million

Without giving specific numbers, Rudy Giuliani said he should be in league with Romney, despite the resignation of his top fundraiser earlier this month. (Marc Santora, New York Times)

More numbers: Fred Thompson says $8 million (ABC News); Ron Paul says $1 million (Reid Wilson, Politics Nation). Correction: Ron Paul raised a little over $1 million in only seven days, according to his Web site.

What about Roe? That seems to be the feeling among a group of religious conservatives who are trying to put the skids on Giuliani's frontrunner status. (David Kirkpatrick, New York Times)

What about Hillary? Rudy retorts. (Liz Sidoti, Associated Press)

Did you catch the Clinton hate-fest on yesterday's opinion pages? Columnists from the Boston Globe, New York Times and Washington Post all had anti-Hillary pieces. (RCP collected a few on Sunday's Front Page.) Is this a sign of weakening elite media support or just elite media being elite media? (Mike Allen and John Harris, The Politico)

Maybe it's a sign of Clinton's stumbling that Norman Hsu is now considered a catchy lead sentence for articles. (Dan Morain, Los Angeles Times)

Did Bill Clinton's appearance on Sunday's talk shows help Barack Obama's message that "Senator Clinton is just an extension of the Bill Clinton presidency"? (Jim Davenport, AP)

Iowa and New Hampshire -- John Edwards bets it all. (Jim Tankersley, Chicago Tribune)

Taking some heat, John McCain had to clarify his statement over the weekend that the United States is a Christian nation. (Russell Berman, New York Sun)

Hey, Mike Huckabee, when you have Newt Gingrich and Bill Clinton agreeing you're awesome, then you must be awesome. (Klaus Marre, The Hill)

Get these snd today's other election stories at RCP's Politics and Elections page.



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