Over at The Campaign Spot, Jim Geraghty discusses a question a lot of people have been wondering about: Why hasn’t Barack Obama revealed how much money he raised in June? A number of his supporters are a bit antsy about it — is he still pulling in those record-breaking numbers? If so, why hasn’t he said anything? Meanwhile, Obama campaign manager David Plouffe has just sent out an e-mail making a poor man’s appeal for more contributions:

The McCain campaign is bragging that they are out-raising and out-spending us.
They had their best month ever in June, and combined with the Republican National Committee, they now have more than $95 million in cash on hand.
With this massive fundraising effort, they claim they’ve been out-spending us 3-to-1 on TV ads over the past couple months. Unfortunately, when it comes to collecting giant checks from Washington lobbyists and special interest PACs, McCain and the RNC do have a lot to brag about.
They are raking in huge donations from those who want to keep Washington just the way it is. And they are pulling ahead in the money race.
To compete against these big money interests in all 50 states, this campaign is relying on you.
We need to respond to the McCain campaign and show them how presidential campaigns should be funded — by ordinary people like you giving only what you can afford….
It’s up to you. Own a piece of this movement by making a donation of $25 today.

The concern among some Obama partisans is that the almost magical level of contributions that he reached during the primary contests will be hard to sustain throughout the campaign, or at least throughout the summer. From Josh Marshall:

But one thing that has occurred to me recently is the very different tempo of small donor fundraising, or at least the sense of it I get watching from my vantage point. There are established networks for big dollar giving. It has a bit more of a command and control quality. But small dollar giving seems highly dependent on the intensity of the moment and the spikes of the campaign cycle. During the heat of the Obama-Clinton battle, giving money was one of the most direct ways supporters around the country could participate in the fight — except when the campaign trundled into their states. And that applies to both campaigns since, by any standard other than up against Obama, Clinton’s 2008 monthly numbers were astounding too.
All time is precious in a general election cycle. But in relative terms we’re in a bit of a downtime now, a lull. People may support Obama every bit as much as they did in February. But my feel of the situation is that people are taking a bit of a breather. And that may not change until the conventions, which are still almost two months off.