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<blockquote data-quote="Babagounj" data-source="post: 868531" data-attributes="member: 12952"><a href="http://www.usatoday.com/news/washington/2011-08-18-obama-fundraising-outpaces-predecessors_n.htm" target="_blank">(USA Today)</a>&nbsp; — President Obama has headlined 127 fundraising events for himself and&nbsp; others, significantly outpacing the fundraising activity of the previous&nbsp; five presidents during their first terms, new research obtained by USA&nbsp; TODAY shows.By comparison, President George W. Bush had held 88&nbsp; fundraisers and President Clinton, 76, at this point in their first&nbsp; terms, according to data compiled by Brendan Doherty, an assistant&nbsp; professor of politicial science at the U.S. Naval Academy in Annapolis,&nbsp; Md. Doherty, who also studies presidential activity with the&nbsp; non-partisan White House Transition Project, examined fundraising going&nbsp; back to President Carter.&nbsp;So far, he has raised $46.3 million in the first three months of his re-election campaign, more than the entire GOP field.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Babagounj, post: 868531, member: 12952"] [URL="http://www.usatoday.com/news/washington/2011-08-18-obama-fundraising-outpaces-predecessors_n.htm"](USA Today)[/URL] — President Obama has headlined 127 fundraising events for himself and others, significantly outpacing the fundraising activity of the previous five presidents during their first terms, new research obtained by USA TODAY shows. By comparison, President George W. Bush had held 88 fundraisers and President Clinton, 76, at this point in their first terms, according to data compiled by Brendan Doherty, an assistant professor of politicial science at the U.S. Naval Academy in Annapolis, Md. Doherty, who also studies presidential activity with the non-partisan White House Transition Project, examined fundraising going back to President Carter. So far, he has raised $46.3 million in the first three months of his re-election campaign, more than the entire GOP field. [/QUOTE]

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