Obama says he brought in another $40 million-plus

Democrat Barack Obama continued raking in the campaign cash during March, raising more than $40 million, his campaign said this morning.

Hillary Clinton, who raised about $35 million in February, has not announced her March numbers. The Associated Press is reporting that she brought in about $20 million, her second best month of the campaign.

While not quite the record $55 million he brought in during February, Obama's total still gives more evidence of his remarkable grassroots money machine, which has grown to nearly 1.3 million individual donors.

His campaign said that the more than 442,000 contributors included more than 218,000 who donated for the first time. The average contribution was $96.

"Senator Obama has always said that this campaign would rise or fall on the willingness of the American people to become partners in an effort to change our politics and start a new chapter in our history,” campaign manager David Plouffe said. “Today we’re seeing the American people’s extraordinary desire to change Washington, as tens of thousands of new contributors joined the more than a million Americans who have already taken ownership of this campaign for change. Many of our contributors are volunteering for the campaign, making our campaign the largest grassroots army in recent political history.”