Obama has raised $639 million dollars (which I think is obscene that there is that much money in any political race, but whatever).
Anytime anyone goes over $200 they have to be reported to the FEC. According to OpenSecrets, 90.7% of his donations qualify as Full Disclosure which they define as: FULL DISCLOSURE: Includes full name and occupation / employer. And under Best Effort rules, they have to try and collect address info as well. You'd be talking about 32,000 $200 fraudulent donations just to comprise 1% of his fundraising total. Doable? Yeah. I'll concede that you and Michael make a case for how it could be done. But when we start talking about any meaningful quantity of his donations, I don't see how you are going to keep it quiet. That's just too big a volume. Especially when you consider how easy (and legal) it is to give large amounts of money to 527 "issue" groups. They could just form a "Downed Vietnam Fighter Pilots for Truth" group and smear McCain right and left with $100 million without any trouble. That being said, I'm all in favor of comprehensive campaign finance reform. I just think this particular issue is making a mountain out of a mole hill. More FUD than anything else. Judah On Sat, Nov 1, 2008 at 12:41 PM, Robert Munn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > And although Obama said on Friday that things were going to get very ugly > the last few days of the campaign, he claims he had no idea about her > immigration status: > > http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/27481680 > > Oh yeah, and his campaign said they would return $260 that she had > contributed in small increments. Remember what I said about piloting a > super-tanker through the loophole in the campaign finance laws? > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Adobe® ColdFusion® 8 software 8 is the most important and dramatic release to date Get the Free Trial http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;207172674;29440083;f Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:277916 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.5
