John McCain has just $1.67 million in primary money on hand and is carrying $1.73 million in reported debt. Such a grim reality means that he is effectively left with two options -- take public matching funds or get out of the race.



While McCain aides sought to downplay his fiscal straits at the end of last month, the report filed last night paints an ugly picture. He didn't raise $6 million for the quarter, as his staff claimed. He actually brought in $5.73 million overall -- and of that only $4,977,000 was in primary dollars, per the Post By contrast, Ron Paul raised $5.2 for the primary in the third quarter.



And, speaking of ugly numbers, Mike Huckabee's paltry $1 million raised for the quarter looks worse in light of his cash on hand -- just $651,000. But Huck's money in the bank looks downright Clinton-esque compared to his rival Sam Brownback. The Kansas senator raised $804K in the quarter and, after blowing a lot of cash for a third-place finish at Ames, is less than $95 grand in the bank.



UPDATE: A McCain aide points out that Romney's camp put out $10 million as what they expected to raise this quarter, but that the former governor wound up raising $9.8 million.

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