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$55 million February windfall for Obama (breaks fundraising record)
Hotline / National Journal ^ | 3/6/08 | Hotline

Posted on 03/06/2008 12:48:14 PM PST by Alter Kaker

Total Funds: $55 million
Primary Funds: More than $54 million

Contributors: 727,972
First Time Contributors: 385,101
Total Contributors – Campaign to Date: 1,069,333

Online Fundraising:
More than $45 million raised online in February
More than 90% of online donations were $100 or less
More than 50% of online donations were $25 or less More than 75% of online donors in February were first-time online donors


TOPICS: News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: fundraising; nobama; obama
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1 posted on 03/06/2008 12:48:15 PM PST by Alter Kaker
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To: Alter Kaker
Gee, he raised more money last month than McCain did in his entire campaign through the end of January.

That's not terribly comforting...
2 posted on 03/06/2008 12:49:14 PM PST by Antoninus (Tell us how you came to Barack?)
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McCain's money will start pouring in now that he's the GOP candidate.

Count on it.

3 posted on 03/06/2008 12:50:43 PM PST by Mariner
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To: Antoninus

Has anyone thought of auditing these donation roles to see if they are legit? It would not be too tough for Soros or some other big donor to write some bots to make thousands of $100 donations.


4 posted on 03/06/2008 12:51:54 PM PST by Truth is a Weapon (Truth, it hurts soooo good!)
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To: Alter Kaker

I thought his supporters were poor and oppressed.


5 posted on 03/06/2008 12:52:08 PM PST by InvisibleChurch (" Nobody likes weepy meat." -- Mayor Quimby)
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To: Mariner
McCain's money will start pouring in now that he's the GOP candidate. Count on it.

Really? I don't think I know anybody planning to contribute to McCain. There are plenty of conservatives out there running for House, Senate, governor, etc. For most of February, McCain was the clear nominee, and he only raised $8 million. There's a reason for that.

6 posted on 03/06/2008 12:52:50 PM PST by Alter Kaker (Gravitation is a theory, not a fact. It should be approached with an open mind...)
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What’s the rule on money designated a “windfall”? Aren’t those supposed to be taken away from the greedy people who receive them?


7 posted on 03/06/2008 12:52:51 PM PST by ClearCase_guy
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To: Antoninus

Obama wants to be president

1974

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cqLvzFv5Q14


8 posted on 03/06/2008 12:53:03 PM PST by BARLF
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To: Alter Kaker
O could help erase the deficit if he would just continue for 4 years. Please don't stop.
9 posted on 03/06/2008 12:53:38 PM PST by gathersnomoss (General George Patton had it right.)
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To: Truth is a Weapon

Nah, McCain took care of that.


10 posted on 03/06/2008 12:54:36 PM PST by gathersnomoss (General George Patton had it right.)
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More than $45 million raised online in February.

If this has not been a Leap Year, Obama would have not raised nearly that amount in February!

Note to Self: Start Freeper Movement to Abolish Leap Years in order to stop the Democratic Fund Raising Machine as well as to decrease the number of days our children are taught Evolution in our public schools!

11 posted on 03/06/2008 12:54:51 PM PST by trumandogz ("He is erratic. He is hotheaded. He loses his temper and it worries me." Sen Cochran on McCain)
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Could this mean that people are giving him their mortgage payments???


12 posted on 03/06/2008 12:55:06 PM PST by Dixie Yooper (Ephesians 6:11)
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More than $45 million raised online in February More than 90% of online donations were $100 or less

Very misleading. That could just mean there were 9 donations of $100 and one for $44.999 million. Not that that is legal, but you get the drift.

13 posted on 03/06/2008 12:55:18 PM PST by Always Right (Was it over when the Germans bombed Pearl Harbor?)
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He could save 100,000 crack babies with that money or send 2 million fatherless kids to kindergarden, or save 0 queers from aids, or build a half mile of New Orleans levee, or buy 10 windgenerators or .....

What a terrible waste


14 posted on 03/06/2008 12:55:50 PM PST by bert (K.E. N.P. +12 . Never say never (there'll be a VP you'll like))
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To: BARLF
Obama wants to be president 1974

I don't get it. Is the "narrator" supposed to be funny by saying "negro" so many times?

15 posted on 03/06/2008 12:57:40 PM PST by Alter Kaker (Gravitation is a theory, not a fact. It should be approached with an open mind...)
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I don’t know, I just found it and the guy speaking doesn’t look like Obama,does he?


16 posted on 03/06/2008 12:59:16 PM PST by BARLF
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To: BARLF

I did not realize that Obama was only 13 years old when he went to college.


17 posted on 03/06/2008 1:00:29 PM PST by trumandogz ("He is erratic. He is hotheaded. He loses his temper and it worries me." Sen Cochran on McCain)
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To: Truth is a Weapon
It would not be too tough for Soros or some other big donor to write some bots to make thousands of $100 donations.

What! Campaign contributions to a democrat that arn’t on the level. I can't believe that!

/sarc.

18 posted on 03/06/2008 1:02:03 PM PST by MAexile (Bats left, votes right)
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To: trumandogz

http://www.superdeluxe.com/?s_cid=GGL%7CCAMP020Brand+Terms+-+Search%7CADGP014Brand+-+Search%7CKWRD014superdelux.com&c1=Brand+Terms+-+Search&c2=Google&c3=Brand+-+Search&c4=superdelux.com


19 posted on 03/06/2008 1:05:07 PM PST by BARLF
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To: Alter Kaker

Notice that money in politics is only a problem for the MSM when Republicans are raising it.


20 posted on 03/06/2008 1:06:11 PM PST by SampleMan (We are a free and industrious people, socialist nannies do not become us.)
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