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Obama Rewriting Rules for Raising Campaign Money Online
washingtonpost.com — Obama has shattered fundraising records and challenged ideas about the way presidential bids are financed. While past campaigns have relied largely on support from small circles of wealthy and well-connected patrons, Obama has received contributions from more than 1 million donors. He raised $91 million in the first two months of 2008 alone.
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obama doing it real big
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"While past campaigns have relied largely on support from small circles of wealthy and well-connected patrons, Obama has received contributions from more than 1 million donors. "
This in itself is proof of Obama's ability to reinvigorate politics for average Americans... and thusly proof that his candidacy is by far more legit than some others... -
1 million idiots...
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This is why Clinton has more money for the general than for the primary -- if you have relatively few rich donors, you have a limited resource pool.
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He needs all the money he can get for his idiotic economic plan.
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So, the people are picking their leaders now? My god, that sounds like democracy!
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So obama is trying to buy the election? That's real american
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supernova17, why you hurt my feelings? http://digg.com/politics/Obama_Rewriting_Rules_for ...
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Obamunism, its insidious!
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Well, to be fair we haven't exactly had a candidate for president that is an inspiring speaker since the Internet really gained traction.
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canidates being supported by the population instead of corporations with interests is a great idea.
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Damnit, Obama is making Ron Paul look stupid.
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the media has been waiting to write articles on how the internet has revolutionized campaign finance but they just couldnt buzz about it when it was ron paul who was breaking all the records.
its ok now that it's obama -
take that lobbyists!
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So there is actually a rule book for this somewhere and Barrack has taken a sharpie to it.
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See, this is what Hillary has been saying all along! Obama just refuses to follow the rules!
Oh, they're using "rewriting rules" in a metaphorical sense? Not in a real sense, like how her husband's campaign staff helped rewrite the same caucus rules that she now complains about as "undemocratic"? Not like how she, in a recorded interview, said the Michigan primaries "won't mean anything" but has now tried for months to rewrite the rules to seat the delegates? Not like how her campaign wanted to rewrite the rule of LAW in Florida to allow elections by mail?
The scary thing is that those were just rules she tried to rewrite in the past 3 months. Imagine 4 years in office. -
hey remember that one time Ron Paul wrote the outlines for raising money online? (Over 6 million in one day with virtually no press coverage) Oh wait all you guys forgot about him. My bad Digg.
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Only if they spent this money, dammit!
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Is anyone keeping track of his spending like you all are doing with McCain? We wouldn't want him to go over the limits now would we? We cannot have almighty Obama being tarnished in any way, shape, or form!
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Whatever. Hillary is SO going to win. She is already winning in the following metrics:
- Most crying
- Most states that have had sushi rolls named after them
- Most states with the word "New" in them (take that, change-bama!)
- Most flamboyant lapels
- Most convincing attempt at appearing to give a ***** about the voters in Michigan and Florida
- Most endorsements from disgraced governors
- Most ***** going on at once in a fantasy 3am phone call
- most big funders willing to threaten congressional democrats with pulling funding
etc.
These numbers don't lie. I don't see how the party elders can deny her the nomination... -
Obama hasn't done anything unique. Dean did this 4 years ago. He just didn't get as many donations. Remember "the bat"?
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Fat cats and lobbyist kiss the American fat ass, we have liberated our leaders from your grip, you dirty sons of bitches
Barrack Obama is the first, certainly not the last. -
Meh. Silicon Valley made this happen. Not any campaign.
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This man should be our next president.
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Yep.
For the first time ever, I have given to a political campaign. Holy Moly!
Go Obama ! -
The process of how this lady donated $25 to Obama is precisely how I donated $100 to Obama. Saw an ad, clicked on it, signed up for newsletters, and shortly after receiving several emails, donated $100. I definitely did not feel pressured at all to donate.
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It doesn't show how much he paid for people to praise him on digg
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Let's hope not, considering that Obama has ties with Tony Rezko, who demands payback on all his investments.
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ONE MILLION DUMBASS who have no idea what OBAMA wants to change....hahahah
HE PAYS PPL TO COME ON DIGG AND POST ARTICLES FOR HIM...he pays obama girl to show skinnnnn....man that tricky bastard...
obama osama obama osama....whats his middle name again...hahahahahh idots all of you idots -
I was going to vote for obama until I realized most diggers support him, and if most diggers support him that must mean he's pretty pro-communist
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Obama Rewriting Rules for Raising Campaign Money
by taking more money from subprime lenders than any other candidate and announcing a $30,000,000,000 "appreciation" kickback for them.
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB120666677096370545 ...
Hmmm, he also is in full support of General Electric's (#3 top lobbyist for the last ten years) "Green Initiative" so NBC/MSNBC/CNBC are the new FauxNews. All the free media he wants and all he has to do is make them hundreds of billions with regulations.
Interesting how he complains about lobbyists having to much influence, yet nearly his entire platform will benifit the top lobbyist in Washington. See for yourself who they are:
http://opensecrets.org/lobbyists/index.asp
It's getting harder and harder to figure out who is the lesser of the evils in this election. All three have proven to be shameless liars. -
RON PAUL owns the online fundraising records. Get your facts straight.....$4.2 and $6.3 million on 2 separate occasions.
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Gotta love how quickly Digg has swept Ron Paul under the rug and switched to Obama.
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I gave money to the Obama campaign hoping he will win. I care more about is win against Hillary than McCain. I just want it to end, soon!
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would-be-president as well as in-house-presidents must be able to lie and rewrite rules according to jay whitlow but sammie refuses to comment.
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He'll still get a ***** of support from lobbyist and interest groups. Surprisingly Dem's get a lot more massive donations from singular donors than the Republicans, at least in the area of 527's. Either way, he's just going to have more money, it doesn't mean he won't be taking the money that the people who traditionally finance campaigns will inevitably offer him.
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Im glad Obama can take Ron Paul's ideas, this guy is a real progressive candidate, he has no real plans, McCain will WIN
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Lets give credit where credit is due. That headline would be accurate if it was describing Ron Paul and how Obama followed suit.
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Clinton is just rewriting the election rules in general.
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I donated $25. First time I have given money to ANY candidate.
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