BARACK OBAMA CATCHES HILLARY CLINTON - $2.1 MILLION RAISED!

"Senator Barack Obama has quickly caught Senator Hillary Clinton in the presidential election fundraising race, adding $2.1 million via an email campaign in just four days." Nice work from the grassroots and the campaign! Take that, PACs, federal lobbyists, investment banks and military contractors allied with Sen. Clinton! She should have gone with public campaign financing for the primaries against other Democrats. She created the money race to win it decisively; instead, it's one of the starkest contrasts in the race: her insider-funded campaign, even by Rupert Murdoch, against Obama's grassroots campaign. And don't start with bankers and contractors donate to him too. The media does no better job than blogs to differentiate between a company low-level worker and a CEO when it comes to donations, it's the bundlers' donations that tell the true story, and Obama's the only candidate to write and push and pass legislation to expose the bundled donations clearly and put all donation information, to candidates and their pet projects, online. It's up to us to push to see the ethics legislation all funded and implemented.

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Obama leads East Bay cash list

The total reflects individual contributions of $200 or greater but not those of political action committees. So that means that, if you add the PAC contributions to the other candidates, Obama's leading even without them! Article quotes lawyer fundraiser, but loads of that $ came from made in the US union label campaign paraphernalia for outreach!

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Clinton Raising Big Cash in Poor Neighborhoods

Yesterday I posted a report of SC Students for Obama in a black college "pressured" to support Clinton, today it's NY's Chinatown. Politics as usual. I volunteer for Obama; we don't do this: Many of Clinton's Chinatown donors said they had contributed because leaders in neighborhood associations told them to. ..., donors said they felt pressured -

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Hillary Clinton Receives Most Military Donations…from the Defense Industry

The ever famed ‘Military-Industrial Complex’ has picked their candidate of choice: Hillary Rodham Clinton. When Hillary takes office, do not be prepared to see an anti-war populist of any sort.

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70% of Black Middle Class Contributions Go to Obama

In one neighborhood of 600 zip codes of middle class African Americans, Obama got an overwhelming majority of the contributions; Hillary Clinton received just two. Despite having wrestled the most endorsements from black former civil rights leaders and legislators, Hillary Clinton is not drawing the support of the people they supposedly represent. Obama is. Quite frankly, I prefer the endorsements Sen. Obama has gotten, but as we all know, it's the people who choose in the end.

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