DES MOINES, Iowa - Democratic presidential candidate Tom Vilsack raised more than $1.1 million in the last seven weeks of 2006, a total that puts him far behind deep-pocketed rivals for the nomination.
Vilsack, one of the first candidates to enter the race on Nov. 9, boasted that his fundraising amount was double what Sen. John Kerry and Howard Dean raised in the same stretch in the 2003-04 election cycle.
In this campaign, however, Democrats Sens. Hillary Rodham Clinton and Barack Obama (news, bio, voting record) can easily raise vast sums quickly, increasing expectations for other candidates. Clinton has more than $14 million in the bank from her Senate campaign — money she can use for a White House bid — and her advisers have not disputed estimates that she will raise $100 million or more before the year is out.
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