years from now, when historians set down the achievements of the failed obama white house apprenticeship, they will point it out as the point in history when dirty money truly took over presidential campaigns, and thereby american politics.
Team Obama raises $1 billionObama for America, the Democratic National Committee and their joint fundraising group Obama Victory Fund have combined to raise $1,009,000,000 since the beginning of 2011, according to a POLITICO analysis of federal campaign flings and voluntary disclosures.
A $90 million October put Team Obama over the top. “In the first 17 days of October, 1,251,291 people came together to raise $90,500,000 for the campaign and combined committees,” the campaign announced on Twitter Thursday.
Obama, who has railed against the influx of big money from conservative megadonors, quickly attributed the success to small donors, noting that since April 2011, 4.2 million people have donated.
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