As the closely-watched second quarter presidential race fundraising stakes drew to a close, campaigns jockeyed to spin their efforts in their best light possible, as a crucial Saturday deadline loomed.
Clinton campaign communications director Howard Wolfson said in an email that her three-month-take would be around $27 million ($31.8 million).
"To put that figure in some perspective, it is more than any Democrat has ever raised in the second quarter of the 'off' year,'' Mr Wolfson said, referring to the year before a US presidential election.
"While that figure is record-setting, we do expect Senator Obama to significantly outraise us this quarter,'' Mr Wolfson wrote.
In the first quarter fundraising period, which saw an unprecedented windfall of campaign cash, Ms Clinton stuffed $26 million ($30.6 million) into her war chest, a few hundred thousand dollars more than Mr Obama.
But the first-term Illinois senator's figure stunned observers as he had to piece together a fundraising operation from scratch.
He was up against Ms Clinton's established network, including her fundraiser extraordinaire husband, former Democratic president Bill Clinton.
Mr Obama's campaign said on Thursday meanwhile that he was on course to receive donations from 250,000 individual donors by the June 30 deadline.
It did not give an estimate of his third-quarter take.
"Each donation to this campaign is a declaration of commitment to the idea that we can change our politics and elect a leader who will inspire and unite this country,'' said Obama campaign manager David Plouffe.....
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