Election 2008

I have to tell you my Father In Law would have a big problem with this ... it isn't that he's a big Obama fan, its more that he is anti-republican.

RNC to File FEC Complaint on Obama Fundraising Practices The Trail washingtonpost.com:

"At the heart of the RNC complaint is a federal fundraising rule that lets campaigns accept donations under $200 without itemizing the names and addresses of the donors on its campaign finance reports. The rule was intended as a matter of practicality -- it did not seem reasonable to ask a campaign to gather that information from every five-dollar donor.

But the Obama campaign has raised more than $200 million this way, a staggering sum for donations that will not be subjected to outside scrutiny."

Now to put this into perpective, that would be:

$200,000,000

that's an awful lot of zeros .... and that means that in tight financial times at the very least 1 million people had a spare $200 burning a hole in their checkbook ...

now what would be the chances of that? Especially in a time when the majority of his supporters are said to be hurting for money?