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WASHINGTON ? The campaign committee tasked with electing Democrats to the Senate raised $2.5 million in the three days following the Supreme Court?s ruling on the president?s health care law, a committee source tells The Huffington Post.

The total resembles a historic haul for the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee (DSCC), which raised $5.6 million in all of May combined. And it underscores what Democrats have been arguing since the court ruled that President Barack Obama?s health care law was constitutional: that the decision was just as galvanizing for their party as it was for Republicans.

?We shattered records for number of online donations in a day on Thursday and then again on Saturday as our supporters learned about the SCOTUS ruling and Republican plans to continue shameless partisan efforts to repeal the law,? DSCC communications director Matt Canter told The Huffington Post.

On Monday, the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee said it had raised $2.3 million since the court?s ruling, from roughly 65,000 donors. The Obama campaign has said that its fundraising has ballooned as well, though unlike the Romney campaign, which raised more than $5.5 million by the day after the ruling, it has not released figures.

The money, ironically, will help Democrats shield themselves from attacks against the president?s health care law, which could be harder for congressional candidates than for Obama (only the president, after all, gets to run against someone who passed an individual mandate on the state level).

But even the massive flood of donations may not be enough. The National Republican Senatorial Committee (NRSC) declined to say how much it had raised off the health care ruling, adding only that it had witnessed a ?significant? uptick in online fundraising.

?From a purely political standpoint, the Supreme Court?s confirmation that this was a massive tax on small businesses and the middle class represents the worst possible outcome for every Democratic Senate candidate that backed Obamacare,? said Brian Walsh, NRSC?s communications director. ?It?s an issue that Senate Republican candidates across the country will be hammering from now until Election Day.?

The combined $4.8 million haul by the DSCC and DCCC, meanwhile, is not even half the amount that casino-magnate Sheldon Adelson has pledged to Romney?s super PAC.

Super PACs, of course, play by different rules. And for the DSCC, the strong fundraising haul was cause for jubilation.

?There should be no misunderstanding,? said Guy Cecil, DSCC?s executive director. ?The decision by a conservative Supreme Court to uphold the president?s health care law generated tremendous enthusiasm and financial support for our committee and our candidates. I?m sure Republicans are also raising plenty of money from their supporters by proclaiming their plans to fully repeal the law, but many of them know that undecided voters are ready to move on and focus on the economy and creating good paying jobs.?

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• 1912

  Former President Theodore Roosevelt champions national health insurance as he unsuccessfully tries to ride his progressive Bull Moose Party back to the White House. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

• 1935

  President Franklin D. Roosevelt favors creating national health insurance amid the Great Depression but decides to push for Social Security first. (Photo by Keystone/Getty Images)

• 1942

  Roosevelt establishes wage and price controls during World War II. Businesses can?t attract workers with higher pay so they compete through added benefits, including health insurance, which grows into a workplace perk. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

• 1945

  President Harry Truman calls on Congress to create a national insurance program for those who pay voluntary fees. The American Medical Association denounces the idea as ?socialized medicine? and it goes nowhere. (Photo by Keystone/Getty Images)

• 1960

  John F. Kennedy makes health care a major campaign issue but as president can?t get a plan for the elderly through Congress. (Photo by Keystone/Getty Images)

• 1965

  President Lyndon B. Johnson?s legendary arm-twisting and a Congress dominated by his fellow Democrats lead to creation of two landmark government health programs: Medicare for the elderly and Medicaid for the poor. (AFP/AFP/Getty Images)

• 1974

  President Richard Nixon wants to require employers to cover their workers and create federal subsidies to help everyone else buy private insurance. The Watergate scandal intervenes. (Photo by Keystone/Getty Images)

• 1976

  President Jimmy Carter pushes a mandatory national health plan, but economic recession helps push it aside. (Photo by Central Press/Getty Images)

• 1986

  President Ronald Reagan signs COBRA, a requirement that employers let former workers stay on the company health plan for 18 months after leaving a job, with workers bearing the cost. (MIKE SARGENT/AFP/Getty Images)

• 1988

  Congress expands Medicare by adding a prescription drug benefit and catastrophic care coverage. It doesn?t last long. Barraged by protests from older Americans upset about paying a tax to finance the additional coverage, Congress repeals the law the next year. (TIM SLOAN/AFP/Getty Images)

• 1993

  President Bill Clinton puts first lady Hillary Rodham Clinton in charge of developing what becomes a 1,300-page plan for universal coverage. It requires businesses to cover their workers and mandates that everyone have health insurance. The plan meets Republican opposition, divides Democrats and comes under a firestorm of lobbying from businesses and the health care industry. It dies in the Senate. (PAUL J. RICHARDS/AFP/Getty Images)

• 1997

  Clinton signs bipartisan legislation creating a state-federal program to provide coverage for millions of children in families of modest means whose incomes are too high to qualify for Medicaid. (JAMAL A. WILSON/AFP/Getty Images)

• 2003

  President George W. Bush persuades Congress to add prescription drug coverage to Medicare in a major expansion of the program for older people. (STEPHEN JAFFE/AFP/Getty Images)

• 2008

  Hillary Rodham Clinton promotes a sweeping health care plan in her bid for the Democratic presidential nomination. She loses to Obama, who has a less comprehensive plan. (PAUL RICHARDS/AFP/Getty Images)

• 2009

  President Barack Obama and the Democratic-controlled Congress spend an intense year ironing out legislation to require most companies to cover their workers; mandate that everyone have coverage or pay a fine; require insurance companies to accept all comers, regardless of any pre-existing conditions; and assist people who can?t afford insurance. (Alex Wong/Getty Images)

• 2010

  With no Republican support, Congress passes the measure, designed to extend health care coverage to more than 30 million uninsured people. Republican opponents scorned the law as ?Obamacare.? (Mark Wilson/Getty Images)

• 2012

  On a campaign tour in the Midwest, Obama himself embraces the term ?Obamacare? and says the law shows ?I do care.? (BRENDAN SMIALOWSKI/AFP/Getty Images)

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