BARACK OBAMA: 750 MILLION DOLLARS RAISED TO GAIN THE PRESIDENCY

Posted by on December 3rd, 2008 at 06:49pm

lindahancock wrote an interesting post today on
Here’s a quick excerpt
Bloomberg Financial News and Jonathan D. Salant are reporting that according to an official aide, President-elect Barack Obama and his campaign raised over 750 million dollars in order to gain the White House with a victory over John McCain and the Republicans.
The monetary figures represent money that was raised from the inception of Barack Obama’s candidacy for the Presidency of the United States in February of 2007.
The article goes on to say that Obama out-raised McCain nearly 3-1 in the general election of 2008.
In the Presidential election of 2004, the two major candidates, George W. Bush and John Kerry, raised 648 million dollars combined.
INSIGHT: While Barack Obama and his Presidential campaign definitely needs to be applauded for its more-than-proficient ability to raise funds, especially over the Internet, it is somewhat curious that so many of his donors have strange names that cannot be traced or that so many of the […]

Read the rest of this great post here

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