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To: NickSE who wrote (10210)	10/2/2003 12:31:11 AM
From: Eashoa' M'sheekha	Respond to of 793717

<<said an adviser to a major candidate>> <<said another senior campaign strategist to one of the top-tier candidates. >> <<said the adviser to a major candidate.<< Trash.

To: NickSE who wrote (10210)	10/2/2003 3:39:28 PM
From: NickSE	Respond to of 793717

Dean out-collects Democrats again sunspot.net LOS ANGELES - Howard Dean widened his fund-raising lead in the Democratic presidential contest by raking in a party record of nearly $15 million for the three-month period ending yesterday. The former Vermont governor, who began the year as a long-shot outsider, is now in a position to close it out with more money than the other Democratic candidates. Over the past 30 years, the contender who has won the so-called "money primary" - by collecting the most cash in the year before the election - has nearly always gone on to become his party's presidential nominee. "What our record fund raising means is there are a lot of people in this country who are willing to stand up and be proud to be Democrats again, if we give them a reason to be proud to be Democrats again," Dean said at a stop in south central Los Angeles. Later, at a fund-raiser at Union Station, he announced that the campaign had raised $14.8 million from 187,000 donors, in the third quarter. Dean's take, fattened by millions in online donations in the past 10 days, may be as much as triple the amount his closest rival collected for the period. It also broke the quarterly record for a Democratic presidential candidate, set in 1995 when President Bill Clinton took in about $10 million for re-election. cont'd.....