Obama receives $32 million in January donations

Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama raised $32 million in January. His $1 million-a-day rate is the largest haul ever by a presidential candidate during a competitive primary.

In an e-mail to supporters Wednesday evening, the campaign said it had attracted 224,000 new donors in January for a total of more than 700,000 overall. The money raised in January was all for the primaries.

Hillary Rodham Clinton's end-of-year finance report, filed Thursday evening with the Federal Election Commission, showed that she raised $26.5 million in individual contributions during the last three months of the year. She spent $39.2 million during the period and had $37.9 million left as the year began. Clinton reported an end-of-year debt of nearly $5 million.

While the Clinton campaign has not released its January totals, Obama's fundraising for the month was expected to eclipse hers.

Mitt Romney reported raising $9 million in contributions and spending $33.8 million during the last three months of 2007. He did not release any fundraising numbers for January, but reported $2.4 million cash on hand at the end of 2007.

John McCain raised $7 million during the first three weeks of January.

Since the South Carolina primary on Jan. 19, Mike Huckabee's campaign has raised more than $3 million online and $1 million at fundraisers.

McCain raised $37.5 million for the year and spent $39.1 million.

Huckabee had his best quarter during the last three months of 2007. He raised $6.6 million from October through December and had $1.9 million in the bank at year's end.

Obama and Clinton both raised more than $100 million in 2007. Clinton spent $80.3 million for the year.