If Senator Obama does not secure the Democratic nomination, perhaps he should become a campaign advisor whose forte is fundraising:

WASHINGTON (AP) - Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama raised $32 million in the single month of January, [Emphasis, mine] a whopping figure that has permitted the campaign to boost staff and extend advertising to states beyond the sweeping Feb. 5 contests, aides said Thursday.

Obama is now advertising in 20 of the 22 states in play for next week’s Super Tuesday and plans to begin advertising in seven more states that hold primaries or caucuses later in February. Rival Hillary Rodham Clinton is advertising in 12 Super Tuesday states, including her own home state of New York.

With John Edwards out of the race, Clinton and Obama are in a fierce race for delegates to secure the nomination. Feb. 5 offers the biggest single opportunity for delegates, but is impossible for either one to seal the nomination on that day.

Obama campaign manager David Plouffe said the campaign attracted 170,000 new donors for a total of 650,000 donors overall. The $32 million raised in one month matches the campaign’s best three-month fundraising period in 2007, when the campaign raised $30 million in primary money and $2 million for the general. The money raised in January was all for the primaries.

These are amazing numbers and ones which any Republican candidate would love to replicate.

The Senator and I are polar opposites on important issues but I must commend him on this achievement.

His ability to raise cash so quickly is something which potentially could play a huge role in the general election.