Subject: Here’s just how impressive Hillary Clinton’s $45 million haul is - The Washington Post
From: "Eric Schwerin" <[email-masked]>
To: "Hunter Biden" <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 1 Jul 2015 14:22:12 -0400

Here’s just how impressive Hillary Clinton’s $45 million haul is - The
Washington Post

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/the-fix/wp/2015/07/01/heres-just-how-impressive-hillary-clintons-45-million-haul-is/?wprss=rss_the-fix&tid=sm_tw_pp

Here’s just how impressive Hillary Clinton’s $45 million haul is

Hillary Clinton's team teased
<http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/post-politics/wp/2015/07/01/hillary-clinton-raised-45-million-since-april/?tid=hpModule_ba0d4c2a-86a2-11e2-9d71-f0feafdd1394&hpid=z8>
its first fundraising numbers on Tuesday, suggesting that the campaign had
pulled in over $45 million from April to June. That's a lot of money by
"normal American" standards. It's also a lot of money by "presidential
primary candidate" standards.

First, some perspective. If I handed you a dollar bill every second,
starting at midnight on April 1, you wouldn't have $45 million until
September. If I handed you a $5 bill every second -- you still wouldn't
have as much as Clinton raised by the time July 1 rolled around.

According to the Federal Election Commission
<http://www.fec.gov/press/bkgnd/pres_cf/presquarters.pdf>, Clinton's
quarterly total is the highest for a non-incumbent in the year before an
election. She even raised more than two of the three quarters Barack Obama
was fundraising *as an incumbent president* in 2011.

 And that doesn't change much even if you adjust everything into 2014
dollars. One of George W. Bush's fundraising quarters slip ahead -- but not
by much.

 There is an advantage to being the only candidate in a party's field in
the modern, mega-rich era. The success of the two most recent incumbents
show that. As does the success of the Democratic pseudo-incumbent that's up
by a mile in 2016 primary polling.

Crowd out the field, and watch the money roll in.

Eric D. Schwerin
[email-masked]

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