Submitted by Amos Ajo, Jul 1, 2007 23:34

Counting this quarter's surge of donors, the first-term senator from Illinois has received donations from more than 258,000 donors through the first half of the year, an extraordinary figure at this stage of the campaign. Obama raised $25.7 million in the first three months of the year.

According to his campaign manager "Together, we have built the largest grass-roots campaign in history for this stage of a presidential race," Obama said in a statement Sunday. "That's the kind of movement that can change the special interest-driven politics in Washington and transform our country. And it's just the beginning."

What is even more significant is the number of donors - over 358,000 compared to Hillary who has only about 60,000. Even the 60,000 donors that Hillary has over half of them are coming from President Clinton. To put this in perspective, I think Hillary is not doing so well as the made up national polls suggest.

The way to measure how well a candidate is doing is to look at the number of donors. You can not lie with these numbers but you can make national poll numers and talk about them.

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