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"Obama's one-month tally is the most ever reported for January of a presidential election year, Federal Election Commission reports show...Plouffe said the Obama campaign counted 170,000 new donors in the last month, bringing its total to 650,000." Whatever happens Tuesday and thereafter, it looks like Sen. Obama has the money to play. "'Our strongest day of the whole month was the day after the New Hampshire primary,' which Obama lost to Clinton, Plouffe said. 'We took a lot of encouragement from that because it showed the resolve of our donor base.'" Update: As TNR's Christopher Orr deadpanned, 32 million? Pff. Bill Clinton can make that over dinner.
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Forget the 90s, the Clintons' "sleaze factor" wants to take us back to the 80s.
the Obama campaign counted 170,000 new donors in the last month, bringing its total to 650,000
Whatever happens this time around, this is a very promising trend for the future. I've harbored hopes that if we can't fix campaign finance, perhaps we can simply finance campaigns collectively using the net. Between Obama and Ron Paul, I'm thinking this is more and more of a viable option. After the dust settles, I'll be very interested to see the numbers for Obama in terms of the percentage that came from small donors.
Now all we need is a candidate who actually wants to swear off corporate money if there are competitively viable alternatives. Or a few hundred of them, in the case of Congress.