Fundraising Numbers are In

Mark Udall continues to trounce Bob Schaffer in the fundraising numbers:

Both U.S. Senate candidates surpassed $1 million in donations during the first three months with Udall collecting $1.46 million and Schaffer taking in $1.02 million, the filings said.

Udall got about $250,000 from political action committees, while Schaffer reported almost $400,000 from his part of the joint fundraiser with President Bush in January.

So Udall shows a healthy amount of business support, while almost half of Bob Schaffer's money came from George W. Bush's fundraiser for him.

Sounds about right. Schaffer is more Bush than Bush, which delights only the 1/4 of people who still support Bush, and the business community showed by its pretty overwhelming support of Referendum C in 2005 that the extreme anti-tax agenda of Bob Schaffer and Doug Bruce is bad for business.

Of course all of this money was raised before the news hit about Bob Schaffer's support for forced abortions and preventing people from going to church in one part of America, and his professed support for taking the system that gave rise to those abuses nationwide. It will be interesting to see if the far right of the far right keeps supporting Schaffer now that these facts have come to light.