Mitt Romney Fundraising: GOP Presidential Hopeful Raises $24 Million During Final 3 Months Of 2011

MANCHESTER, N.H. — Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney raised $24 million during the last three months of 2011.

Romney's campaign announced the year's final fundraising numbers on Wednesday, a day after he won the New Hampshire primary. It's his best fundraising quarter of the primary campaign so far. The former Massachusetts governor has $19 million to use in upcoming primaries as he looks to become the GOP nominee.

The total means that Romney raised $56 million in 2011. He announced his candidacy in June. Romney, a multimillionaire, didn't make any personal contributions to the campaign. In 2008, he contributed more than $45 million of his own money. The announcement underscores Romney's huge financial advantage over the conservative rivals scrambling to beat him in South Carolina's Jan. 21 primary.

 

 

Comments

[beach14737]

05:08 AM on 01/12/2012

The money spent by these politicians is obscene, especially when there are so many people in this country that are homeless and hungry. I think they should each get the same amount of $ and do what they can with it, no outside groups working on their behalf, no donations from anyone. And, it should be a modest amount!

[truth 1]

04:53 AM on 01/12/2012

and obama is projected to raise 1 billion, and of course, once again, that will come from "small donors". yeah, right.

[BRIAN TUCKER]

03:07 AM on 01/12/2012

IF YOU are in the 99% PERCENT and VOTE for ANY of these GOP CRIMINALS then you are either hopelessly, congenitally STUPID,, or really enjoy dropping your drawers & bending over !

[RWinTenn]

05:10 AM on 01/12/2012

Thats just a drop in the bucket compared to what Obama has raised. I guess he is just in the upper part of the one percent. lol

[arc23con]

02:28 AM on 01/12/2012

Look out, bank fees going up.

[nostoptilthetop]

12:36 AM on 01/12/2012

In ANY other country, we (as americans) would call this BUYING an election.

[nostoptilthetop]

12:36 AM on 01/12/2012

CAMPAIGN REFORM PLEASEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE

[CherMoe]

12:06 AM on 01/12/2012

Is there any wonder our country is faltering when all the money is being poured into buying the Presidency rather than being invested in jobs and infrastructure for our country? So much for PATRIOTISM.

[Rick Hines]

11:39 PM on 01/11/2012

24 million is a far cry from Obama's 1000 million, or 1 billion he is expected to raise. That kind of money how could a guy lose. I am sure none of that is from the 1%. Then again if you let a company like GE not pay any taxes on your watch and you hire there CEO as a member of your labor board! Well....!

[nostoptilthetop]

12:37 AM on 01/12/2012

their*

I think we all agree that campaign reform needs to happen. Doesn't matter if you're a Dem, Repub, or moderate. This is just ridiculous.

[jackintheboxil]

11:00 PM on 01/11/2012

i'm sick of ALL of them!

[rsgreyfox1]

01:48 AM on 01/12/2012

JACK...fanned
I think we all are.

Amazing what and who money will buy.
Apparently Bain and Koch are really coming through.

[Wise Old Guy]

04:26 AM on 01/12/2012

Bain & Koch? Why are you picking on Romney for the "pittance" he raised? 24 million is nothing compared with the 1 billion Obama raised from his Wall St. crony's!

[fromperdink]

10:17 PM on 01/11/2012

I am just not getting it. Why is it OK for Republicans to attack Paul from the left on Constitutional issues? Why is it OK for Huntsman to attack other candidates from the left, for example, regarding climate change? Why was it OK for many Republicans to blame Wall Street Speculators during the Bush Administration for high oil prices (Although true, is that not anti-capitalistic and leftist thinking?). Why was it OK to attack Gingrich for making money, legally, by providing services to Fran & Fred, or why, although Gingrich was virtually forced out of office by plotting liberal dems - were those attacks not considered to be from the left by establishment Republicans? Why is it Not OK for any conservative Republican candidate, Gingrich in particular, to attack Romney from left regarding Bain? Is Romney attacking himself from the left - when he defends his government health plan for MA? Why the outrage from Republican talking heads about attacks by Rep from the left?

[fromperdink]

10:43 PM on 01/11/2012

Am I just not getting it? Or is there something more here? This seems to be either hypocrisy or spin, because the establishment fears Gingrich Can beat their favorite Romney? I think that Gingrich is doing Romney a favor by getting this issue out in the open. To attempt to disqualify conservative candidates and end this early with attacks on alternative opinions, being “Unfair” or “Unwarranted”, because they are counter to establishment Rep thinking, is Political Socialism. It IS fair to criticize on the basis of “Untruth” and make the case, But, what is not fair is to criticize based on political ideological authoritarianism. Contrary to what many liberals think, Conservatives do not march in lockstep. I am still an undecided conservative. Santorum is currently my top pick with both Gingrich and Romney tied for my second choice. However, the establishment Romney-ism is really starting to make me feel like the establishment fears what the people will choose, and is attempting to force us to choose who they have already chosen.

[nostoptilthetop]

12:39 AM on 01/12/2012

He was forced out of office for ethics issues where he paid a fine of $300k. Maybe you really aren't getting it. hahaha

[openvisions55]

09:52 PM on 01/11/2012

How many jobs would have been created with that kind of money. Yet American people have no money. These people should be under the bus and run over. What a waste of a person

[terracne]

10:34 PM on 01/11/2012

And YOU think Obama won't raise any money??? Get real - oh yea I forgot, you can't, you're a DEMOCRAT!

[movingman64]

09:31 PM on 01/11/2012

How can any working class people vote for this man???

[terracne]

10:35 PM on 01/11/2012

The same way non - working people vote for OBAMA!

[movingman64]

11:37 PM on 01/11/2012

voting for someone who will do everything in their power to keep you down makes no sense to me!

[CherMoe]

12:08 AM on 01/12/2012

This working class person will never again vote for a Republican as long as I live.

[movingman64]

09:51 AM on 01/12/2012

Neither will this one!!!

[GOODDOC1]

08:43 PM on 01/11/2012

Does anyone know if PACs or these campaign committees are taxed on the contributions they receive?

[nostoptilthetop]

12:39 AM on 01/12/2012

tax free.

[GOODDOC1]

01:10 AM on 01/12/2012

Why doesn't that surprise me? Oh well.

[razaminaz]

08:39 PM on 01/11/2012

Does it make anyone else absolutely sick to the stomach on how much these people rake in and spend to get a job that pays about 1% of what their backers cough up?

[voteindepen]

08:22 PM on 01/11/2012

its really simple the rich and corporations give millions to both parties in campaign contributions and both parties pass laws and include tax loopholes in legislation that are favorable to the rich and to corporations so that they dont have to pay taxes therefor the rich can give more to the campaigns and it just keep going around in a circle over and over