Looks like Giuliani had the lowest burn rate (as a percentage of $$ raised in Q1). Both McCain and Romney blew through more than 50%.

The Democratic side should be interesting to see, particularly Clinton's numbers - she blew through way too much money on her re-election campaign, and it'll be interesting to see if the same free-spending habit carries over.

SO Romney outraised Obama, Clinton and Edwards online?  I call Shenanigans.  I agree that he must have had his big donors go on line.

Is there any way to track the burn rate of these campaigns?  What is the monthly fixed costs for each campaign?

Does anyone know the standards for inclusion in the 6 sanctioned DNC debates? With Clinton, Edwards, Obama, Biden, Dodd, Richardson, Kucinich, and Gravel that's 15 minutes each in an1 1 1/2 hour debate. That's a joke. I hope they have some cut-off for the like 5% in an average of polls in the last 4 of 6 debates.

Running for President shouldn't be like Little League. Not everybody gets to play.

Romney's online donations aren't really comparable: http://www.techpresident.com/node/253

That's Mike Turk's piece, who was the eCampaign director for Bush/Cheney.  He's pretty smart about this stuff.

About Romney it is his big donors that came through online. Didn't he raise $6 million in one day right near his announcement? I think all of the donors were directed to donate that online. As Matt's post above links to.

So the number isn't really that impressive overall compared to Obama, Clinton and Edwards, at least not in a grass roots sort of way. Romney's numbers are impressive but not in breadth/number of donors sort of way

that no hard numbers on burn rate/ cash at hand from the 3 top dems. Should be very very interesting

Romney is a Morman and he will get lots of small donations,

Matt, I worked campaign finance on a high-volume race last cycle.  The big donors, whenever possible, were urged to contribute via credit card, because there's nothing more annoying than having huge amounts of pledged funds floating around uncollected.  Someone would sit next to the candidate with a laptop loaded to ActBlue and wait for someone to agree to contribute, then take their information immediately to minimize the number of opportunities they'd have to "forget" to write the damn check.

Anytime someone with a huge-ass credit limit agreed to give, we'd push them to plastic.  I'd be shocked if Mitt's guys didn't do the same.  With as many Congressmen as have endorsed him, I'm sure he's spent plenty of time on the phone with their top donors.

Sooo, Tommy Thompson's not doing so well.  Who, aside from his mother, is surprised?

But with all the talk about Fred Thompson, I think we can finally see how the GOP can inject some real life into their campaign:  Run a Fred Thompson/Tommy Thompson ticket.

It's precisely the sort of trvial move that can keep Versailles twittering for months!  And before you know it, the election's over... voila!

And, of course, who could forget the Thompson Twins big hit, Lies?