NM-Sen: Udall Outraises Pearce and Wilson COMBINED

Tom Udall is a part of the True Blue New Mexico donation campaign.

This post is crossposted at New Mexico FBIHOP.

I wrote earlier about Tom Udall’s impressive fundraising total: more than a million dollars in a single quarter for a candidate in a Senatorial race.  A race for Senator in New Mexico.  This isn’t exactly New York or California where we are accustomed to seeing politicians raise huge amounts of money for these races.  Even important federal races; while Heather Wilson raised nearly $5 million in 2006, she didn’t do so in the fourth quarter of 2005.

But then comes some news that Udall not only raised an insane amount of money; it was actually more than both GOP candidates combined in the third quarter.

U.S. Rep. Tom Udall raised more than $1 million for his Senate bid during the fourth quarter of 2007, beating the combined total raised by the two leading Republicans in the race, U.S. Reps. Steve Pearce and Heather Wilson.

Udall raised more than a million dollars, as I mentioned before.  So what did Republicans Heather Wilson and Steve Pearce raise in that same time period (actually, more on the time period later)?

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Wilson came in second in fundraising for the quarter, raising just under $517,000. She spent just under $194,000 and begins 2008 with almost $1.1 million in the bank.

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Pearce reported raising just under $426,000 for the quarter, spending just under $206,000 and having almost $820,000 on hand.

Remember, the two Republican candidates will be forced to spend money on a primary battle, while Udall will be free to conserve and continue to accrue money during the same time period. Did someone say time period?

Udall entered the race in November.  Wilson entered within 48 hours of Domenici’s retirement in early October.  Pearce entered mid-October.  So Udall had less time to raise money, and still outraised the combined efforts of both his rivals.

Astonishing.