Crossposted at New Mexico FBIHOP
Hat tip to Heath Haussamen
For the second quarter in a row, Tom Udall outraised both Republican candidates — combined. The $1.3 million he raised in the first quarter was about $350,000 more than the $943,000 the Heather Wilson and Steve Pearce campaigns raised combined.
I wrote his fundraising success in the fourth quarter of 2007 was astonishing. To do so two quarters in a row is beyond astonishing. It shows that Udall clearly has more momentum than either Pearce or Wilson.
Wilson topped the Republican side with $517,000, or less than half of Udall’s take, while Pearce raised just $426,000; or slightly more than one third of Udall’s fundraising number.
Pearce reported spending $433,000 in the first quarter and ended with slightly more than $850,000 cash on hand. In other words, Pearce had a negative cash flow in the first quarter of 2008 despite raising more money than he did in the fourth quarter of 2007.
Udall has $2.6 million in the bank, half a million dollars more than Wilson has raised total in the campaign.
That’s going to be what my house will be full of when November comes around. God, I almost hope that Heather Wilson gets the nomination, just to see her finally get beaten by a Democratic candidate.