Obama's Amazing Money Machine

[americanstranger]

This is a real good look at the people behind Obama's fundraising apparatus. These people have it nailed down.

"The story of Obama’s success is very much a story about money. It provided his initial credibility. It paid for his impressive campaign operation. It allowed him first to compete with, and then to overwhelm, the most powerful Democratic family in a generation—one that understood the power of money in politics and commanded a network of wealthy donors that has financed the Democratic Party for years.

What’s intriguing to Democrats and worrisome to Republicans is how someone lacking these deep connections to traditional sources of wealth could raise so much money so quickly. How did he do it? The answer is that he built a fund-raising machine 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."

http://www.theatlantic.com/doc/200806/obama-finance

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If there's a better contrast between Obama's 21st-century campaign and Clinton's 20th-century model, I haven't read it.

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[Waya]

1. Wasn't he supposed to release numebrs today for the month of April?

... Methinks I heard gushing about that yesterday on MSNBC - supposedly astronomical figures.

[babylonsister]

2. Yes. I just checked; nothing yet that I could find. nt

[juajen]

3. Doesn't that make you just a little bit suspicious?

I don't know how old you are, but it was said that JFK won the presidency because of the "Daley machine" in Chicago. Same machine now supporting Obama, with, you guessed it, a Kennedy involved. I'm suspicious. In Obama's case his connections to the Daley machine will be loudly reported by the republicans if he wins the nomination. Count on it.

[snooper2]

4. It's just math ass

I have donated $25 a month since November, and many others are doing the same....

What's a 1,000,000 people donating $25 each add up to? I know you Hillary supporters are not good with math, but I will help...

it's 25 million....

Now, that wasn't hard was it...See, Obama found a couple million people out there who believe in him, and we each give a little...Remember that there are 310,000,000 people in the country so all he had to do is tap into a SMALL percentage of the population to do what he has done.

Why can't Hillary INC. do that? Oh yeah, she relied on old time $2300 person maxed contributers who were tapped out by January :rofl:



GOBAMA!

[FlaGranny]

5. Doesn't make me suspicious.

I'm another one of those $25 per month contributors, with extra thrown in as I can afford it.

[rurallib]

7. I can't help it - that was funny

:rofl: :rofl:

[FrenchieCat]

8. so full of shit, so little time. You being "suspicious" is supposed to mean something?

Considering the Clinton's documented financial ties with dark forces in all of their fundingraising and the fact that the Clinton Campaign is 20 Million in debt should have been raising your "suspect" flags since 1993. Doh!

[Aloha Spirit]

9. If Obama had such a machine, he would have won West Virginia with moonshine and dollar bills.

[americanstranger]

10. Actually, the 'old model' makes me more suspicious.

(The one Clinton relies upon.)

Given the choice between a few fat cats raising millions (and no doubt expecting payback somewhere along the line) and millions of small donors who help keep Obama away from the Clinton-type fundraisers (us), I'll go with... us.

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[AllentownJake]

11. The Daley Machine

was against him in the primaries for his senate seat :rofl:

[Scurrilous]

6. K & R

:thumbsup: