Originally Posted By: the G-man
Come on, BSAMS. That article has to be fake. After all, people like Obama have been telling us for years that the Republicans are the party of "the rich". How could Obama be raising that sort of money?


Again, G-man, for someone that is on the pulse of politics, you really haven't been paying attention, have you? Obama has been incredibly successful in getting small grass roots donors rather than a few large donors.

Here, for future reference:

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Small Online Contributions Add Up to Huge Fund-Raising Edge for Obama

CHICAGO — A cluster of cramped cubicles, tucked away in a rear corner of Senator Barack Obama’s campaign headquarters here, serves as the heart of a fund-raising machine that has reshaped the calculus of the 2008 election.


Mr. Obama’s finance director, Julianna Smoot, who has helped him raise more than $150 million so far, does not even have her own office. A Ping-Pong table is the gathering spot for Friday lunches for her team.

The setting, which has the feel of an Internet start-up, is emblematic of how Mr. Obama, of Illinois, has been able to raise so much money. On Wednesday, the Obama campaign will report to the Federal Election Commission that it collected $36 million in January — $4 million more than campaign officials had previously estimated — an unprecedented feat for a single month in American politics that was powered overwhelmingly by small online donations. That dwarfed the $13.5 million in January that Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton of New York is expected to report Wednesday and the $12 million Senator John McCain’s campaign said he brought in for the month.


In other words, Obama is being funded by THE AMERICAN PEOPLE, rather than by small wealthy donors at fancy dinners.