He is first. Who cares if it is by 13k. The point is that we have a candidate, while the democrats have 4 candidates fighting it out.
In your response you answered your own question - even though he is the GOP candidate, one of the FOUR Democrats running nearly matched his totals. Or to put it another way the combined Dem fundraising almost equalled a $1,000,000. And again, the RNC, in order to finance McCain, isn’t going to be able to help him and the other Congressional GOP candidates later on i.e. their primary is over and they’ve coaleasced around a candidate. Not good.