Leave your feedback Share Copy URL https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/obama-tops-rivals-mccain-slips-in-campaign-fund-raising Email Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Pinterest Tumblr Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Transcript Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., raised $32.5 million for his presidential campaign over the past three months, besting the other candidates. Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., meanwhile, raised less than his first-quarter figure. Two campaign reporters examine the numbers. Read the Full Transcript Notice: Transcripts are machine and human generated and lightly edited for accuracy. They may contain errors. JUDY WOODRUFF: All right, Gwen Ifill and Mark Halperin, stay with us, because we want to talk about the other big political story of the day, and that is the record second-quarter fundraising by presidential hopeful Barack Obama.The first-term senator from Illinois raised $32.5 million just over the past three months, the most ever by a Democratic candidate in a non-election year. And that money came from 154,000 new contributors, adding up to more than a quarter of a million donors this year.New York Senator Hillary Clinton trailed Obama, with $27 million raised this quarter. Former North Carolina Senator John Edwards was well back, with $9 million, New Mexico Governor Bill Richardson with $7 million, and Connecticut Senator Chris Dodd with just over $3 million. The other three announced Democrats have not made their numbers available.Meanwhile, among the Republican candidates, only Arizona Senator John McCain made public his second-quarter fundraising, just over $11 million. McCain's campaign, by the way, made news today, announcing it plans to fire 50 staffers and to cut the pay of several senior aides.For more on all this on the money and the role it plays, let's turn back to Mark and to Gwen for that.Gwen, to you first. You're in New Hampshire. Barack Obama is there. You talked to him today. What does he say about what he's accomplished?