[Zhang Fei]

Obama's trying to play the role of the underdog. But the role doesn't fit him, given his overwhelming funding edge, especially given the fact that Romney's 44% deficit includes funding spent winning the GOP primary. Take out primary expenses, and Romney's funding disadvantage vs Obama gets even bigger.

[1010RD]

Correct. This election isn’t going to be easy. We’ll have to fight very hard to win.

[cripplecreek]

The voting booth isn’t the only place to commit fraud.

[E. Pluribus Unum]

You can be absolutely certain that Soros is laundering hundreds of millions of dollars to the campaign through anonymous prepaid debit cards, just like last time.

[InterceptPoint]

So Obama has a $100M lead. A month ago he had $170M lead. And he has outspent Romney by some amount. Looking at those numbers and remembering the incredible amount of fundraising that Obama has been conducting I’m thinking Romney is going to easily win the money battle.

Bottom line: Very misleading article.

[luvbach1]

I’ve seen significantly more TV spots in support of the Great Usurper than Romney.

[Revolting cat!]

In other words, we admit, though we’ll never say it out loud, that the whole affair from beginning to end is about nothing else but buying the presidency!

[Venturer]

You don’t know what to believe any more the lies are coming so fast.

Last night I was convinced that Romney had more money, now we find that Obama has more money.

Obama also has free travel all around the world so he doesn’t need money.We pay his travel expenses.

[JMJJR]

“This allows Obama to pose as a crappy dog eating man.

That’s better

[Tennessee Nana]

OH NOOOOOOOOOEZ

[TribalPrincess2U]

Then 0bama must be lying again. Didn’t he say the Republicans are outdoing him money wise.

But then lying comes easy for this person.

[paudio]

There are several things that needs to be clarified before I completely understand where they stand as of July 1. Forget about the outside groups since according to the article they only amount about $20-25m total for each candidate.

First, the difference between stock and flow. Cash on hand, I believe is a stock variable, while amount of money raised in the month of June is a flow variable. So, based on published data we learned that Romney led the June inflow, and 0bama seemed to burn their money which means he led the June outflow. So, overall, 0bama's cash-on-hand decreased, while Romney's increased.

Second, incremental or cumulative. From the article, I get that Romney led in the incremental inflow (especially in June), but 0bama led in cumulative inflow (to date). As cumulative money included the primaries, they are not really comparable since 0bama had no rival while Romney was in a competitive race.

Assuming Romney became the presumptive nominee in early June, we can look at that date as the beginning of Romney v. 0bama. Polls show the numbers have been quite stable, that is, the two have been --more or less- tied since then. So, any cumulative, inflow and outflow would be comparable. With Romney leading in the inflow, and 0bama leading in the outflow, it's not surprising that 0bama & Co. start to be fidgeting.

[paudio]

There are several things that needs to be clarified before I completely understand where they stand as of July 1. Forget about the outside groups since according to the article they only amount about $20-25m total for each candidate.

First, the difference between stock and flow. Cash on hand, I believe is a stock variable, while amount of money raised in the month of June is a flow variable. So, based on published data we learned that Romney led the June inflow, and 0bama seemed to burn their money which means he led the June outflow. So, overall, 0bama's cash-on-hand decreased, while Romney's increased.

Second, incremental or cumulative. From the article, I get that Romney led in the incremental inflow (especially in June), but 0bama led in cumulative inflow (to date). As cumulative money included the primaries, they are not really comparable since 0bama had no rival while Romney was in a competitive race.

Assuming Romney became the presumptive nominee in early June, we can look at that date as the beginning of Romney v. 0bama. Polls show the numbers have been quite stable, that is, the two have been --more or less- tied since then. So, any cumulative, inflow and outflow would be comparable. With Romney leading in the inflow, and 0bama leading in the outflow, it's not surprising that 0bama & Co. start to be fidgeting.

[ScottinVA]

Obama's campaign has raised $326 million to Romney's $227 million

While that overall number is valid, Romney has been gaining in the last three months. The downside is, we the taxpayers are paying million$ for TV propaganda ads supporting Obamacare, which happens to be a huge issue this year.