"Small Online Contributions Add Up to Huge Fund-Raising Edge for Obama"

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.

Posted by Rick Hasen at February 20, 2008 09:16 AM