The Daily Background

The FEC’s third quarter fundraising deadline is midnight Saturday Sunday, which means we should hear the first leaked or formally announced numbers coming out of campaigns fairly soon. I doubt there’ll be any exciting leaks this quarter though, cause the 3rdQ is always the slowest and so the campaigns may be dragging their feet a bit. The formal reports will be due at the FEC in another two weeks or so.

Expectations: The Conventional Wisdom has Hillary beating Obama by a mil or two (they’re both rumored to be preparing to announce 20M, maybe slightly less), and Edwards having a tough quarter- Richardson may beat him in fundraising for the first time. Obviously a lot of attention will be paid to however much Fred Thompson raises on the Republican side. With the expectations he’s foolishly built up, he’s clearly going to disappoint… at this point the only question is: by how much?

Update: Also, McCain. How much is he hurting right now? We’ll know soon enough.

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