Obama raises unprecedented 150 million dollars in September

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Oct. 19 (Bloomberg) -- Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama raised more than $150 million for his campaign against Republican John McCain in September, more than doubling the previous one-month record he himself had set in August.

The Obama campaign added 632,000 new donors, its most ever in a month, for a total of 3.1 million to date, with an average contribution of $86, Campaign Manager David Plouffe said in a video message e-mailed to supporters today. The previous monthly record for fundraising was $66 million in August.

Plouffe asked supporters to continue donating money in the remaining 16 days until Election Day, Nov. 4. Additional funds will allow the Obama campaign to broadcast more advertisements and send its own automated phone messages, in response to ``the slime that we're getting from the McCain campaign,'' he said.