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Obama raises record $55 million in February: campaign
hReuters ^ | March 6, 2008 | Reuters

Posted on 03/06/2008 4:51:15 PM PST by CurlyDave

CHICAGO (Reuters) - Democratic U.S. presidential candidate Barack Obama raised $55 million in February, a record for any presidential campaign in a single month, a campaign official said on Thursday.

The amount is well above the $36 million the Illinois senator raked in during January and is also much higher than the $35 million raised by his rival Hillary Clinton during February, even though that month marked a record for her fundraising...

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TOPICS: Government; Miscellaneous; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: campaign; election; fundraising; nobama; obama
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Obama claims to be getting a lot of contributions from "ordinary people" and most are below the threshold for serious record keeping.

I really want to know if these are real or if someone with a computer and a lot of money is just dividing it up into very small amounts and sending it to Hussein.

It seems to me this would be easy to do, hard to trace, and a great way around campaign finance reform...

1 posted on 03/06/2008 4:51:15 PM PST by CurlyDave
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To: CurlyDave

Laws are being broken.


2 posted on 03/06/2008 4:53:01 PM PST by Thebaddog (Dog breath? I don't think so.)
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To: CurlyDave

Soros?


3 posted on 03/06/2008 4:53:45 PM PST by Paleo Conservative
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To: CurlyDave

It’s questionable. Something unsavory is going on.


4 posted on 03/06/2008 4:55:06 PM PST by RightWhale (Clam down! avoid ataque de nervosa)
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To: CurlyDave

All I know is that Hussein-In-The-Membrain was sending me one or two mailers a day to me here in Dallas leading up to the March 4th primaries, and all that money earned and spent could not buy my vote.


5 posted on 03/06/2008 4:55:32 PM PST by Vision Thing
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To: Paleo Conservative

Perhaps Osama, Saudi sheiks, Iranians, and others dedicated to the destruction of America. How would we know?


6 posted on 03/06/2008 5:01:21 PM PST by FFranco
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To: CurlyDave

I find it downright scary.


7 posted on 03/06/2008 5:03:00 PM PST by AlternateEgo (Fred Thompson for the Supreme Court)
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To: FFranco

If he’s allowed to spend this much money with out accounting for it, it is an Obamanation.


8 posted on 03/06/2008 5:03:39 PM PST by Paleo Conservative
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To: CurlyDave

Expounding on this a little more, I am just a little guy who retired to rural Oregon.

What I am trying to point out is that someone who has a lot more horsepower than I really ought to take an in-depth look at the sources of Obama, and Clinton’s, funding. Look for patterns of donations and what IP servers they come from, that kind of stuff.


9 posted on 03/06/2008 5:05:38 PM PST by CurlyDave
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To: Thebaddog

There should be no campaign finance laws.


10 posted on 03/06/2008 5:06:24 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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He’s getting crowds of 20,000 people everywhere he speaks. Why is it so hard to believe that he’s getting a lot of small donations?


11 posted on 03/06/2008 5:08:16 PM PST by Lurking Libertarian (Non sub homine, sed sub Deo et lege)
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Think about this...what kind of person puts themselves through this for two years...that’s right. We’ll never get good, honest people as long as we make them do this kind of things. SIX MONTH CAMPAIGNS...PERIOD. That is mroe than enough time to prove your case. This is absurd.


12 posted on 03/06/2008 5:09:20 PM PST by Hildy (You know you're in love when you can't fall asleep cause reality is finally better than your dreams)
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There should be no limits on campaign contributions. People should be able to contribute billions of dollars individually to a campaign of their choice.

Frankly, I don't believe we get enough commercials or yard signs. I have no idea who to vote for because I don't get enough information. I also think that the Super Bowl should contain campaign ads and if campaigns had billions of dollars flowing into them, they'd be able to afford it.

13 posted on 03/06/2008 5:10:06 PM PST by SamAdams76 (I am 53 days away from outliving Dan Quisenberry)
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To: Thebaddog

Which Laws are being Broken?


14 posted on 03/06/2008 5:11:21 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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Which Laws are being Broken?

I don't know for sure that any are. But campaign finance reform limited donations donations to $2300 per individual.

And, I know that it is child's play to set up a computer program to make 500 separate donations of $2000, instead of one big one of $1,000,000.

Illegal aliens can purchase social security numbers, do you really believe that is beyond the capability of special interest groups?

15 posted on 03/06/2008 5:41:03 PM PST by CurlyDave
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I really want to know if these are real or if someone with a computer and a lot of money is just dividing it up into very small amounts and sending it to Hussein.

I suspect this is the case. Given that Hillary and Obama are so close in the popular vote, there's no way Obama is getting this many 'little people' to donate.

16 posted on 03/06/2008 5:47:23 PM PST by MEGoody (Ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.)
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To: CurlyDave

Wouldn’t you like to know where all that came from? Me too!


17 posted on 03/06/2008 6:24:09 PM PST by FlingWingFlyer (In November, we're going to be able to elect politicians who say they can change the weather. YAY!)
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With Hillary donations, I would theorized that those are valid american contributions, with Obama, I have persian, afghanistan and Indian( the red dot kind) that contributes to OSAMA HUSSEIN, errr, OBAMA HUSSEIN.

Furthermore, Michelle Obama and him are both racists- they simply hate white people, thus Michelle went into this “For the first time, i am proud of my country..” speech


18 posted on 03/06/2008 6:24:44 PM PST by liz wetzel
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Combined, both top democrats made 90 million in February. Being democrats, regardless of whether or not the people listed behind those donations actually exist, their votes will show up as surely as the money does.

In other words, the democrats have 90 million dollars worth of votes at the moment. Does McCain?


19 posted on 03/06/2008 10:44:06 PM PST by kenth
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Start with that $200 Internet no report floor. I'm supposing that big spending supporters are able to hit the repeat button from their home computers and send millions to the Obama campaign anonymously in order to circumvent the spending rules for individuals.
20 posted on 03/07/2008 8:19:24 AM PST by Thebaddog (Dog breath? I don't think so.)
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