By June, Bush raised $370k a day for GOP and candidates

President Bush's record-high unpopularity ratings have not stopped him from drumming up tremendous sums for his party's 2008 election bids.

According to CBS News, Roll Call reports the President's fundraising average for 2008 through the end of June has reached $370,000 per-day, nearly outpacing presumptive GOP Presidential nominee John McCain.

Bush has raised $67 million thus far in 2008, and is on track to beat President Clinton's fundraising record of $100 million during the 2000 campaigns.

"Further, McCain has agreed to take public financing in the fall and will be limited to spending $84 million," said Roll Call. "So every penny Bush can raise for the Republican National Committee is another coin gathered to match the Obama juggernaut."

However, thanks to his radioactive political status, Bush has kept his fundraising relatively private. In the first half of 2008, the President hosted or attended 28 fundraising events: all of them closed to the press.

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According to a CBS News analysis by correspondent Mark Knoller  regarded as the most accurate tracker of presidential activities  Bush as of the end of June had raised $67 million for the GOP and its candidates this year, an average of $370,000 a day.

The sum is nearly 70 percent of what the presumptive Republican presidential candidate himself, Sen. John McCain (Ariz.), has been able to amass. Former President Bill Clinton, perhaps the most famous  and infamous  fundraiser of all time, culled just over $100 million for Democrats in all of 2000.

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