Obama campaign says it has outraised Romney since court decision

President Obama has outraised Mitt Romney since the Supreme Court affirmed the healthcare law, Obama's campaign claimed Friday, but it did not give the fundraising numbers.

Obama campaign press secretary Ben LaBolt called the Romney campaign's attempts to tout its fundraising dollars "perverse."

"It's perverse that Mitt Romney won't share details about what he'd do for the millions he'd leave uninsured or at the whims of insurance companies when he 'kills Obamacare dead,' but he'll share the hourly details of his fundraising after the Supreme Court ruling," LaBolt wrote in an email statement. "We've outraised the Romney campaign in that time period but that's not the point — our supporters are more committed than ever to ensuring that insurance companies can't drop coverage for people who get sick or discriminate against people with preexisting conditions by reelecting the President."

But LaBolt did not offer specific numbers for the campaign's fundraising totals.

The Romney campaign, meanwhile, circulated an email Friday afternoon bragging it had raised $4.6 million from more than 47,000 separate donations in the aftermath of the court's decision. 

Campaign spokeswoman Andrea Saul also noted that Romney had added three times as many new Facebook fans as Obama over the period following the ruling, and she said more Romney supporters were engaging with content on his page.

"We have received a tremendous response following the SCOTUS ruling across the country from voters who have a renewed sense of energy to repeal and replace Obamacare," Saul said in a statement. "Voters realize that the urgency of this election has become even more urgent."

Both campaigns have sought to capitalize on the ruling. President Obama's team emailed supporters Friday touting a "I like Obamacare" bumper sticker available for a $5 donation. 

"The Supreme Court ruling on health reform means that the law that's already helping millions of families can go right on doing that," wrote deputy campaign manager Stephanie Cutter. "But let's not kid ourselves: What happened yesterday means nothing if Mitt Romney is given the chance to repeal Obamacare. We have to win this election. Tomorrow is the biggest fundraising deadline we've faced on this campaign."

The Romney campaign, meanwhile, sent out a fundraising plea almost immediately after the presidential hopeful gave his statement Thursday denouncing the decision.

"Today, the Supreme Court upheld ObamaCare. But regardless of what the court said about the constitutionality of the law, ObamaCare is bad medicine, it is bad policy, and when I’m president, the bad news of ObamaCare will be over," Romney wrote in the email.

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