CHUCK TODD: Then a quick fundraising update on the president’s official Twitter account this morning. The campaign announced that it raised more than $45 million for the campaign and the DNC combined in the month of February. That’s more than twice what they did in January, but for an incumbent president, he’s doing surprisingly poorly with big donors.
According to analysis by the Washington Post this morning, at this point in the last election cycle, candidate Obama received donations of over $2,000 from more than 23,000 different people, more than double the 11,000 who have given him that much this time around. President George W. Bush had more than four times that number of big donors at this point in his reelection in 2004. Speculation in the piece as to why? Wall Street disillusionment combined with complacency about the campaign. Now we know why the president is devoting so much time lately attending campaign events.