Reply #10: whether HRC "raised" $10 million in one day cannot be proved, or disproved, from the FEC Reports [View All]

Those reports do not accurately reflect precisely when money may have been pledged or donated. If you don't believe me, then explain Obama's own reports (and, by the way, I'm an Obama supporter):

For example, here is Obama's report for April.

http://query.nictusa.com/pres/2008/M5/C00431445/A_DATE_C00431445.html

He lists almost $12.5 million on April 1. Now, if he had really raised that much on that one day, don't you think his campaign would have been touting that fact?

Take at look at Obama's report for March, or February: same thing: more than half of the contributions for March were reported as coming in on March 1. And an even larger percentage of the contributions for February are listed as received on February 29.

http://query.nictusa.com/pres/2008/M4/C00431445/A_DATE_C00431445.html

http://query.nictusa.com/pres/2008/M3/C00431445/A_DATE_C00431445.html

I don't know why the reporting is done this way, but its plainly obvious that receipts and pledges get bundled together and reported at the beginning or end of the month regardless of when they probably were actually made.

So, while I don't know whether (and don't necessarily believe) that HRC got $10 million in pledges in one day, I do know that whether that is or isn't so cannot be proven by the FEC reports.