Last week, in the Sun, I noted:

Everything about this week’s event in Washington screamed big. From the ballroom at the Marriott Wardman Park Hotel, designed to hold more than 3,000 people, to the Patton-esque flag backdrop, to 1,000-plus donors, to the price tag for entry — from $1,000 to $4,200, the maximum any individual can give to a federal campaign — every detail of the event was on the larger-than-life scale that only a front-runner and longtime Washington fixture can pull off.
A former chairman of the Democratic National Committee and a friend of Mr. and Mrs. Clinton’s, Terry McAuliffe, introduced the power couple and gleefully announced that the event raised $2.7 million.
“This cycle, we are going to raise …” Mr. McAuliffe paused for dramatic effect, and the 40 or 50 reporters gathered leaned forward. “Ten trillion dollars!” he exclaimed, and the crowd laughed.
The figure was not a true throwing-down of the gauntlet, but it indicated that the Clinton presidential campaign is one of the few for which money will not be an object. Mr. Obama is likely to be Mrs. Clinton’s best-funded rival for the Democratic nomination, and he has already demonstrated fundraising prowess in Hollywood and his home base of Chicago. But Mr. and Mrs. Clinton clearly are reemphasizing that they are biggest dogs on the block.

Today we learn:

In a political season already marked by phenomenal fund-raising, Hillary Clinton has hit a new high, raking in more than $10 million in just one week.
The old record for raising ridiculous amounts of money – for the entire first three months of a campaign – was set in 2004 by John Edwards, when he led all Democrats with $7.4 million.
Clinton topped that with just three events that raised $8.5 million by themselves, capped by a star-spangled soiree on Saturday for 660 at the home of Beverly Hills billionaire Ron Burkle.
“It was a lot of work, but it was worth it,” said Clinton’s California finance maven, Sim Farar.
Farar ran the Burkle bash, which sources told the Daily News raised $2.7 million. That was on the heels of a $2.7 million take in Washington on Tuesday and a $3.1 million night in New York on March 18, both headlined by her husband, former President Bill Clinton.
She picked up an additional $1 million yesterday at fund-raisers in San Francisco and the Silicon Valley. Add in a string of “small” events in the past few days in places like Cincinnati, Las Vegas and San Diego, and Hillary Clinton handily cracks $10 million in just eight days.
The top campaigns all have been downplaying their first-quarter haul to get better press when the fund-raising period ends Saturday. But backers of Sen.Barack Obama (D-Ill.) and former Sen. John Edwards (D-N.C.) still nearly choked when told of Clinton’s $10 million week.

Maybe I’m getting ahead of myself, but it’s hard to imagine that the Democratic donor base can support more than two extremely well-funded candidates. It’s early, one of the big names could stumble, surprises or scandals could emerge, blah blah blah, but really, right now it’s difficult to see a scenario where the Democratic nominee isn’t named Hillary or Barack.