LONG before Iowa's caucuses or New i Hampshire's "first-in-the-nation" primary, presidential candidates must prove themselves in an even more crucial competition: the money primary. This week some early results came in, in the form of fund-raising reports to the Federal Election Commission for the three months to October. On the Republican side, Rick Perry and Mitt Romney are leading by a landslide. But their haul is dwarfed by the $42m amassed by Barack Obama. His total since he declared in April that he was running again is now $86m, almost as much as all the Republican candidates combined.
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