Has the blogosphere moved past puberty and matured enough to propel a candidate into the Oval Office? That's the question Salena Zito asks in view of the phenomenal fund-raising success (via the internet) of Barack Obama.
Total 2007 primary dollars raised: $55.7 million.
Total 2007 number of individual donors: 258,000.
In a word, Barack Obama’s second-quarter fundraising numbers are shattering. There never has been anything like it. For a guy who was in the Illinois Senate three years ago not only to be in the top tier of his party's fundraising but to have raised the most of any candidate in a quarter is mind-boggling...
Read the rest of Zito's column here. And, for another view that underscores how Obama's superpowers in raising money may not correlate to winning votes, check out this Beth Fouhy piece in the New York Post.
