[Pukin Dog]

Common sense suggests that Dean would not be doing this, if the money was not already promised. Either that, or it is a HUGE PR gamble. I doubt it.

Dean's fundraising over the Internet is immune from public vetting and reporting. He could be getting money from outside the country just as easily as from inside the states and there is no one asking him to track the origin of those donations.

Laundering money through various sources would be very easy. Dean could have also been underreporting his fundraising to save up for a big PR moment when he announces that he has raised the 40 million. Great strategy, because no one would be the wiser.

[Miss Marple]

I agree. In fact, I think this is a HUGE loophole in fundraising, and Dean and his people are arrogant enough to trumpet this as if he is the great hope of the "little people" and that is why they are giving him the donations.

What I hope is that some terrorist money has found its way into his campaign coffers, and the feds have to look at the books.