{"id":13490,"date":"2012-03-22T15:20:56","date_gmt":"2012-03-22T19:20:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=13490"},"modified":"2012-03-22T14:54:23","modified_gmt":"2012-03-22T18:54:23","slug":"president-obama-raises-45-million-in-february","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=13490","title":{"rendered":"President Obama Raises $45 Million  In February!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>WASHINGTON \u2014 Picking up the pace, <strong>President Barack Obama<\/strong> raised $45 million for his re-election bid in February, bringing his total to about $300 million for this election cycle, his campaign said Monday.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Pres. Obama<\/strong> stepped up fundraising efforts during the month, collecting nearly twice as much as the $23 million per month average he raised during the final three months of 2011 and more than the $29.1 million he raised in January. The money was spread among<strong> Pres. Obama\u2019s<\/strong> campaign, the Democratic party and two campaign funds.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Pres. Obama\u2019s<\/strong> campaign said nearly 350,000 people contributed in February and the average donation was about $59 for the entire election cycle. Nearly 98 percent of the donations were $250 or less.<\/p>\n<p>With Republicans locked in an extended primary campaign, <strong>Pres. Obama\u2019s<\/strong> team has tried to build a large 50-state operation that will help it register new voters, bring back past supporters and boost turnout.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Pres. Obama\u2019s<\/strong> campaign had about $75 million in the bank through the end of January.<\/p>\n<p>Campaign officials have implored its supporters to donate money and get involved, pointing to Republican-leaning super PACs expected to raise hundreds of millions of dollars to defeat the president.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WASHINGTON \u2014 Picking up the pace, President Barack Obama raised $45 million for his re-election bid in February, bringing his total to about $300 million for this election cycle, his campaign said Monday. Pres. Obama stepped up fundraising efforts during the month, collecting nearly twice as much as the $23 million per month average he [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":210,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pmpro_default_level":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13490","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-national-news","pmpro-has-access"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13490","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/210"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13490"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13490\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13490"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13490"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13490"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}