Obama expected to raise $3M for Dems

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Obama expected to raise $3M for Dems

By Reid Wilson
Posted: 06/16/09 06:17 PM

President Obama is expected to raise $3 million for the two Democratic campaign committees at a Thursday fundraiser, sources tell The Hill.

The event, to be held at the Mandarin Oriental Hotel in Washington, will benefit the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee and the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee.

The $3 million figure is approximately what the president raised for the Democratic National Committee at his first fundraiser, an event held at a downtown theater.

But it is significantly less than the amount President Bush would routinely raise for the two Republican campaign committees. In 2008, Bush raised $21.5 million for the National Republican Congressional Committee and the National Republican Senatorial Committee; in 2006, Bush raised $27 million for the two committees from about 5,000 contributors, according to reports at the time.

This year, in an event headlined by former House Speaker Newt Gingrich (R-Ga.), the NRCC and NRSC said they raised $14.5 million.

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All that money and they still lost/are losers.