Obama’s official campaign raised $46.3 million and spent $11 million from April to June of this year, according to new documents filed with the Federal Election Commission. That left it with a whopping $37 million in the bank, including money left over from the first quarter. Obama also brought in $39.3 million in a joint fundraising effort with the Democratic National Committee, the filings show.
The numbers put Obama far ahead of his GOP rivals, who are led by Mitt Romney with nearly $18.4 million raised. The former Massachusetts governor also reported $12 million of cash on hand at the end of June.
The rest of the field lags well behind, and some, including former House speaker Newt Ging­rich, are already in the red.
Former Minnesota governor Tim Pawlenty spent $2 million in the quarter, leaving him only $1.4 million in primary cash to battle Romney and other contenders in the weeks ahead. Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-Minn.), on the other hand, has $3.6 million in the bank only weeks after declaring her candidacy.
For Obama, the sheer number of bundlers — and the volume of donations they represent — signals another potential juggernaut like 2008, when he shattered all records by raising $745 million. During his first campaign, he had 47 bundlers who raised $500,000 or more — a total he is already more than halfway to matching.
Obama’s biggest bundlers include longtime supporters such as Hollywood mogul Jeffrey Katzenberg, former New Jersey governor and senator Jon Corzine, and fashion editor Anna Wintour. But there are new names on the campaign’s bundlers list as well, such as Marc Benioff, a tech CEO who runs salesforce.com.
Several of the key bundlers, including Benioff, held events at their homes in which Obama came. These events usually gave donors special access to Obama, including the chance to ask the president direct questions in a closed-door atmosphere.
Hollywood super-agent Ari Emanuel, the brother of former White House chief of staff Rahm Emanuel, helped raise between $50,000 and $100,000.
Romney did not release a full list of bundlers, but his campaign was required to disclose bundling by six registered lobbyists, totaling $517,000 in contributions. The lobbyists included Patrick Durkin of Barclays, who raised $168,000, and Wayne Berman, with Ogilvy Government Relations, who raised $102,000.
The lobbyist bundler requirement was put in place by an ethics law sponsored by then-senator Obama, who has not accepted contributions from registered lobbyists or corporate PACs in his presidential bids. The Obama campaign attacked the GOP field on Friday for declining to identify their top fundraisers.
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According to figures voluntarily released Friday by the Barack Obama  for the 2012 US presidency, Obama's top donors raised at least $35 million since April of this year by giving the maximum for individuals and compiling contributions from associates. This quarter, Obama raised a total of $86 million jointly with the . He received $20 million from about 600 people who gave the maximum annual individual contribution of $35,800, of which $5,000 goes directly to the campaign.

The campaign released the names of the top 244 contributors called "bundlers", typically rich donors who give liberally and gather cash from friends and business contacts. The list of donors included two dozen, including  chief editor ,  CEO ,  executive , and former  CEO , who each raised at least $500,000. 

Although the campaign points out it has more than 550,000 donors, the list shows the hefty role played by these bundlers in Obama's fundraising. The campaign emphasizes that Obama refuses to accept money from s or s in Washington.

According to the , Obama raised $76.5 million from 560 bundlers for his 2008 presidential run. "Bundlers are the biggest players supporting a campaign, well beyond just the folks who are maxing out their individual donations," said Dave Levinthal from the Center. "They serve as aggregators of cash, a critical function to a successful fundraising operation."

About 80 percent of Obama's biggest donors from , those that raised $500,000 or more, were appointed to what the White House calls "key administration posts," according to a report released Friday by . In that campaign,  Obama had 47 bundlers  who raised at least $500,000. He is already half way to reaching this number with the two dozen contributing from April through June, according to ''''. 

The  denied that donations had anything to do with these appointments. According to  , "The people who got those positions got them because of their credentials.  They also happen to be donors in some cases. ... Being a supporter does not qualify you for a job or guarantee you a job, but it does not disqualify you."