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Funding lead

Aided by aggressive Internet campaigns, Howard Dean and Wesley Clark have raised the most money among Democratic candidates in the final quarter of 2003, according to preliminary estimates.

Mr. Dean, the Democratic front-runner, will have raised more than $14 million in the final three months, pushing his yearly total to almost $40 million, the Associated Press reports. Campaign manager Joe Trippi called on donors to push the quarterly total to $14.8 million, the amount the campaign raised from July through September.

Mr. Clark, the retired Army general who entered the race in September, will have raised between $10 million and $12 million in the fourth quarter, for a total of almost $15 million since becoming a candidate.

By raising almost as much money as Mr. Dean in the fourth quarter and accepting federal matching funds, Mr. Clark should be financially competitive with the former Vermont governor in the near term.

Clark and Clinton

Democratic presidential hopeful Wesley Clark's new television commercial includes a clip of him and Bill Clinton.

It's the first ad of the 2004 campaign to include an image of the former president, the Associated Press reports.