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Ryan Lizza of the New Republic was on The Chris Matthews Show on Sunday and revealed a clever little fundraising trick from the Obama campaign. Apparently, one of the reasons that the Obama campaign has been able to defeat a two-term New York Senator ( read: a big money investment-banker/ private equity state) and a former -- popular -- President of the United States in small donors is that the Obama camp are counting $2-$4 bumber sticker purchases as "small donations(Exaggerated cough suiggesting feigned detachment)." Clever! That .. would explain how a charismatic one trerm Senator could beat Billary. Also, from NYTimes:
"Senator Barack Obama was the guest of honor at a dinner at the luxurious Mark Hopkins Hotel in San Francisco this spring with a few hundred lawyers, executives and investors. The guests drank a boutique beer with Mr. Obama’s face on the label and contributed more than $1 million in $2,300 checks to support his bid for the Democratic presidential nomination.
"Just moments before he arrived, Mr. Obama had said goodbye to a less exclusive crowd of 10,000 that had gathered to hear him speak across the bay in Oakland. They paid nothing to hear him, but spent $40,000 on Obama T-shirts, baseball caps, buttons and other knickknacks. And the Obama campaign registered each of the purchasers as one of the record 258,000 contributors it signed up in the first six months of the year."
Alls fair in love and politics (But, just so you know ..)
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