On Wed, Nov 5, 2008 at 1:42 PM, Peter C. Ndikuwera <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Wasn't this the most expensive campaign in history?
yes Didn't Obama raise > millions more than McCain? no and yes. Obama got his money from small donations from individuals (mostly). he raised more than McCain this way. http://edition.cnn.com/ELECTION/2008/map/fundraising/ McCain got his cash (mostly) from corporations/lobbysists and their employees. Then there is "soft money" given to parties and other orgs that take sides. The Republicans always have more of these "slush funds" to go around, so this was to mcCain's advantage. > > Sorry if I sound snide, but we shouldn't use this campaign as proof that the > little man can beat the big man! It little money vs big money, millions of small donations, vs hundreds of thousands of larger ones. Little money (and a great organisation on the ground) beat the "big money". > If anything the "big" man won, nope, the man with the biggest get out the vote effort/organisation, (built street by street, neighborhood by neighborhood, city by city) won. -- Cheers, McTim http://stateoftheinternetin.ug _______________________________________________ LUG mailing list [email protected] http://kym.net/mailman/listinfo/lug %LUG is generously hosted by INFOCOM http://www.infocom.co.ug/ The above comments and data are owned by whoever posted them (including attachments if any). The List's Host is not responsible for them in any way. ---------------------------------------
