The NY Times offers this report. Key statistic: Obama “brought in $28 million online, with 90 percent of those transactions coming from people who donated $100 or less, and 40 percent from donors who gave $25 or less, suggesting that these contributors could be tapped for more.”
I’m writing a short academic piece on the positive political equality aspects of the rise of the small donor, and the substitution of the Internet-driven small donor pool for the almost-dead presidential public financing system.
See also Dan Morain’s Feb. 14 story on small donors and Bob Bauer’s comments on the NY Times piece.