Obama's Amazing Money Machine

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Joshua Green has a must-read piece on Sen. Barack Obama's fundraising operation which is "quite unlike anything seen before in national politics. Obama's machine attracts large and small donors alike, those who want to give money and those who want to raise it, veteran activists and first-time contributors, and -- especially -- anyone who is wired to anything: computer, cell phone, PDA."

"Here's another thing: he is doing it almost effortlessly. That is to say, in an era when the imperative for campaign dollars demands more and more of a politician's time and lurks behind so many recent scandals (including the auctioning-off of the Lincoln Bedroom), Obama has raised more money than anybody else without plumbing ethical gray areas or even spending much of his own time soliciting donations. During the month of February, for example, his campaign raised a record-setting $55 million -- $45 million of it over the Internet -- without the candidate himself hosting a single fund-raiser. The money just came rolling in."

Wed May 14, 2008

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