Tapping President Bush's Contributors

Senator John McCain has tapped President Bush's network of campaign contributors more productively than have Rudy Giuliani or Mitt Romney.

Now that McCain has created a presidential exploratory committee he is able to directly raise money for a possible presidential campaign. Using his political action committee, McCain raised more than $1.4 million from 640 of Bush's 2004 donors across 40 states.

That is almost triple the $505,999 Giuliani and the $542,300 Romney have collected from former Bush donors using their political action committees.