The Media Comments on Fundraising

No surprises here. The early numbers, as previously reported, are that Fred has raised over $8M in Q3. It looks like Romney will report having raised $10M in the same period and that he loaned his campaign $6-7M in the same period. The patently liberal MSNBC blog Firstread is commenting on how much of a struggle Fred is having:

Here's something to compare Thompson's money to: the 1st Q numbers of his three main rivals: Romney raised 21.2M; Giuliani raised 16.6M; McCain raised 13M.

By comparison, Fred’s $7-8M (or even $10 million) this quarter is not great.

As usual they miss critical information. Q3 is not Q1. Q3 is traditionally a very slow time for contribution generally. Fred was only a candidate for one month of the three months of the quarter. The campaign tried to manage expectations by floating a $5M number last week, but even that cannot slow down those who seem to want to beat Fred down.

I really do think this is indicative of their fear of what Fred means to the election cycle. Possibly it is indicative of the fears of the beltway media about a FDT campaign.