Obama bests Hillary in second-quarter fundraising for 2008
 Update: The Associated Press reports that Obama raised $32.5 million in the second quarter, a record for Democrat, of which at least $31 million is for the Democratic primary election. More than 154,000 individual donors gave to Obama's campaign, bringing his total number of donors since January to 258,000.
Campaign reporting for 2008 seems to have gotten even more aggressive than the race itself.
A 4:36 am posting Sunday on an ABC News blog reveals that Sen. Barack Obama (D-IL) is expected to announce his campaign raised more than $30 million during the second quarter, possibly surpassing Sen. Hillary Clinton (D-NY) whose campaign says she'd probably hit $27 million.
"That figure tops Obama's haul during the first quarter of the year, when he reported raising $25.8 million," notes ABC's George Stephanopoulos reports.
"Official figures have not yet been released by Obama's rivals for the Democratic nomination," the site adds, "although the campaign of Sen. Hillary Clinton, D-N.Y., had said it expected to raise about $27 million during the quarter, and the campaign of former Sen. John Edwards, D-N.C., had publicly set a goal of $9 million."
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