Revised and updated at 11:40 am with official Clinton campaign total
by Frank James
Sen. Barack Obama keeps getting more of that mother’s milk of American politics, campaign cash.
His campaign is reporting today on its website that since Super Tuesday evening, it has raked in more than $7.5 million though it says it won’t keep the tote board up for long, not wanting reveal all its secrets.
At the current torrid pace, he could surpass $30 million in February, according to the campaign. Obama raised $32 million in January, an amount that wowed many people.
We don’t have an official number from Sen. Hillary Clinton’s campaign for what her campaign raised since Tuesday though the campaign pointed reporters to a blog posting that reported that her campaign had raised $3 million since Tuesday.
(Update: Since the above paragraph was written, we have received an official number from the Clinton campaign. The campaign says it raised “more than $4 million online in a single day since the polls closed on Super Tuesday.”)
Clinton, of course, disclosed to reporters yesterday that she loaned her campaign $5 million of her money in January. We also know that campaign staffers are going without their salaries to conserve cash.