Of that amount, about $3.9 million has gone to Democratic candidates, $1.6 million to Republicans.
Nationwide, the Democratic candidates are out-raising the Republicans as a group by a ratio of slightly less than 3-2. But the differential is substantially larger here, a region that is more Democratic than the rest of the country.
Of all the Republican money raised in the eight-county region, 74 percent came from the Pennsylvania suburbs. But even there, Democrats out-raised Republicans by nearly 2-1.
The ratio is about the same in South Jersey, and almost 5-1 in the city of Philadelphia.
"Overall, it's an easier year than usual to raise money for Democrats because Democrats can smell victory in 2008," said Alan Kessler, a Center City lawyer and one of Clinton's top fund-raisers. "As for our campaign, there are certain pockets of the country that are exceptionally supportive of the Clintons. This is one of them."
"I'm not surprised that the Democrats are doing better than the Republicans," said lawyer David Girard-diCarlo, a Republican stalwart who has been raising money for Sen. John McCain of Arizona. "People have to be out of power to really want power. The desire to get in is always greater than the desire to stay."
Clinton, who has come to Philadelphia for several fund-raising events, has taken in at least $1,530,104 from the eight-county area.
Sen. Barack Obama (D., Ill.) is second in the regional standings with $1,121,412. But he leads Clinton and everyone else with 1,744 donors (compared with her 1,281). He is attracting more medium-sized and small donations, many of them over the Internet.
