Last night at 8:51 PM the Edwards campaign reached their goal of raising
$9 million before the second quarter fundraising deadline at midnight.
I can't help but wonder how much of that money was raised because of
the Elizabeth vs. Ann incident, and if they would have made the $9 million mark without Coulter's help?

The Blogosphere has been somewhat slow this morning on reporting and discussing the second quarter numbers, but here are some estimates that I found through Huffington:

	2nd Quarter (estimates)	1st Quarter (actuals)
Barack Obama	$30 million	$25.8 million
Hillary Clinton	$27 million	$36 million
John Edwards	$9 million	$14 million
Bill Richardson	$7 million	$6.2 million

None of the campaigns have verified these numbers yet, but I think they
give us a pretty good idea of what effect the numbers will have. Obama
is definitley the big story this time around. Clinton stole the
spotlight in the 1st quarter by raiser the most, but that was because
the $10 million that she transfered from her last Senate race. Because
of Clinton's many contributions of $4,600 (only up to $2,300 of which
can be used in the primary), Obama actually raised more money for the
primary in the first quarter than Clinton, a detail that the MSM never
really picked up on much. This time will be different. Obama will come
out as the clear fundraising winner in both Democratic and Republican
field of candidates. We'll have to wait and see what kind of impact
this positive headline will have for the Obama camp, but political
trophies like these can often give candidates a significant boost.

Edwards reached his $9 million goal with a mere three hours remaining, and I
suspect raised more online than any of the others. None the less, his
numbers fall short of the $14 million that he raised in the first
quarter. His campaign will be pleased that they ended up with more than
Richardson, who had hope to surpass Edwards this quarter. Richardson's
$7 million will show some minor improvement from the first quarter, but
nowhere close the the break-away numbers that his camp had hoped for.