Wall St. Journal On Paul Money: Beating Dodd, Biden, and Probably Huckabee
….with what they are reporting as a $3 million third quarter. (That amount might not end up being accurate--the Paul campaign still hasn't given out official numbers.) Excerpt:
The antiwar libertarian raised more than $3 million in the third quarter, up from $2.4 million in the second quarter and $641,000 in the first three months of the year.
For the three months ended Sept. 30, Paul out-raised old Washington hands including Democrats Sen. Chris Dodd of Connecticut, who took in $1.5 million, and Sen. Joe Biden of Delaware, who raised just under $2 million.
For the year, Paul has collected around $6 million. He remains stuck in national polls at around 5% or less — about the same level of support as another Republican dark horse, Mike Huckabee, the former Arkansas governor.
The well-spoken Huckabee placed second in the Ames, Iowa, straw poll this summer and is a favorite among Beltway pundits. But so far, his campaign is staying mum on his third-quarter fund-raising numbers, suggesting that they haven't dramatically improved from the $766,000 Huckabee raised in the second quarter.
As Glenn "Instapundit" Reynolds, from whom this is via, said--and you know he can't love him too much Ron "Out of Iraq Now" Paul--"Can you still call him a minor candidate?" Somehow, I bet the relevant MSM will still manage to.
