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Fat Cat Democrats

If McCain, like Obama, had broken his promise and opted to avoid the public campaign financing that he foisted upon us and had raised a fraction of the cast Obama has raised, there would be loud chorus of ?Obscene!? emanating from the mainstream press.

At least the Washington Post reports today that the picture of Obama?s campaign as being driven by small donors is largely a myth. In ?Big Donors Drive Obama?s Money Edge,? the Post notes that

Lost in the attention given to Obama's Internet surge is that only a quarter of the $600 million he has raised has come from donors who made contributions of $200 or less, according to a review of his FEC reports. That is actually slightly less, as a percentage, than President Bush raised in small donations during his 2004 race, although Obama has pulled from a far larger number of donors....

Full post as published by Discriminations on October 22, 2008 (boomark / email).