Adam B. at Daily Kos provides some helpful number crunching on the presidential campaigns, including the surprising fact that John Edwards, not Barack Obama, is leading in the percent of campaign contributions that came from small donors (under $200) this year, though the difference between the two is minimal. Hillary Clinton trailed with just 13 percent lower-dollar contributions to Edwards’ 31 percent and Obama’s 28 percent. Obama led Edwards in the under $200 category for the first six months, however. The take-home: given an expected influx of more than $13 million in public funds for Edwards, all of the top three Democrats will have enough to compete in the early contests.

–Garance Franke-Ruta

Garance Franke-Ruta is a former senior editor at the Prospect. Her work has also appeared in The Washington Post, The Washington Monthly, The New Republic, and The Wall Street Journal, among other publications. She was a 2006 recipient of a fellowship at the Joan Shorenstein Center on Press, Politics, and Public Policy at Harvard University.