Hello, I'm Susan Glasser, the editor of Political, and I'm delighted to be guest hosting this week's

edition of the Politico 2016 Nurdcast, where we get together our brightest minds here in the newsroom at political

and talk geeky stuff like what numbers really mattered this week in the campaign

okay so first of all we're going to talk about 48 million

dollars versus 263 million dollars. Ken Vogel will explain more what that means

but the bottom line is quite simply this.

Hillary Clinton's fundraising advantage over Donald Trump

is much, much bigger than you think.

Donald Trump may be the billionaire in the race,

but the structural advantage is all Democratic this time

around.

Here's another set of numbers to consider, and this comes from Eli Stockels, our lead beat

reporter on the Trump campaign.

9 and 90.

9 is the number of rapid response emails that came boom boom boom

out of the Donald Trump communication shop

in the midst of Hillary Clinton's 90 minute speech

attacking Donald Trump this week. Why does it matter? Because we're desperately

absolutely looking for evidence, any sign of evidence that Donald Trump is starting to look well, a bit

more presidential, especially after his big campaign shake up this week where he fired his

campaign manager.

Charlie Matishin offers us two numbers that I find, particularly illuminating, 7,116 versus 0.

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