Re: [Marxism] Matt Gonzalez

[Eli Stephens <elishastephens@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Abu Hartal:

"Obama's campagin is not financed by PAC money; more than 90% of it has been 
financed by donations less than $100."

Absolute nonsense. It may be that 90% of his DONORS have given less than $100, 
but that does not mean that 90% of the campaign has been financed by such 
donors.

Here's an up-to-date article on the subject, from just two days ago:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/02/25/AR2008022502576_pf.html

Some data from the article:

Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton (D-N.Y.) has raised about half her primary money so 
far from donors who gave $2,300, the largest amount allowed. Sens. Barack Obama 
(D-Ill.) and John McCain (R-Ariz.), in contrast, have raised only about a third 
of their funds from "maxed out" donors.

Obama has received 36 percent of his donations from contributors of $200 or 
less, while Clinton has raised 17 percent from them. McCain has collected a 
quarter of his contributions from these small donors.


Reinterpreting that last paragraph, we learn that Obama has received 64 percent 
of his donations from contributors of MORE than $200 (and, from the previous 
paragraph, fully half of that amount is from people who have given $2300).


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