Obama's small donor base image is a myth, new study reveals (flag)

latimesblogs.latimes.com — Everybody knows how president-elect Barack Obama's amazing campaign money machine was based mainly on several million regular folks sending in hard-earned amounts under $200, a real sign of his broadbased grassroots support. Except, it turns out, that's only sorta true. In fact, ...

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Obama's big donors outweighed small
The Swamp — ... "The myth is that money from small donors dominated Barack Obama's finances," CFI's executive director Michael Malbin says. "The reality of Obama's fundraising was impressive, but the reality does not match the myth." ...

Shocka: Obama’s Small-Donor Base a Myth?!?! Who’da Thunk It?
Patterico's Pontifications — The L.A. Times Top of the Ticket blog reports: Obama’s small donor base image is a myth, new study reveals. Everybody knows how President-elect Barack Obama’s amazing campaign money machine was dominated by several million regular folks sending in hard-earned amounts under $200, a real sign of his broadbased grassroots support. Except, it turns out, that’s not really true. . .. . [T]he nonpartisan Campaign Finance Institute just issued a detailed study of Obama’s donor base and its giving. And that’s what the ...

NOW THEY TELL US (CONT’D): Obama’s small donor base image is a myth, new study reveals. “The reali…
Instapundit — ... NOW THEY TELL US (CONT’D): Obama’s small donor base image is a myth, new study reveals. “The reality of Obama’s fundraising was impressive, but the reality does not match the myth.” ...

Myths Unravel
Blue Crab Boulevard — ... Another day, another media-generated Obama myth destroyed. This time it turns out that those hordes of small donors everybody knows contributed Obamoney to Obama in such huge numbers were actually not really there at all - at least not in the numbers that were touted . That is not to say that Obama’s fundraising was not impressive - obviously, it was. But the money from large contributers dwarfed the amount from small, individual donors. In fact, 80% of Obama’s money came from large donors, many of them multiple repeater donors. The reported numbers show that Obama actually ...

Legend fabrication watch: The small donor myth bites the dust
TigerHawk — ... when his boss announced the decision to rejected public funds back in June: But, bottom line, the Obama camp believes that its reliance on small donors for its historic fundraising success is itself reforming the financing of campaigns. More than 90 percent of Obama's donors, Gibbs says, gave $100 or less, and the campaign doesn't accept money from lobbyists. "Campaign finance reform," Gibbs says, "is taking place in our campaign." Well, it turns out that Gibbs fibbed : Everybody knows how President-elect Barack Obama's amazing campaign money machine was dominated by several ...

Hmmm
Suburban Guerrilla — ... Didn’t I get attacked for saying this earlier when I pointed out that the bulk of Obama’s contributions came from the financial services industry? Why yes, I believe I did! ...

On ‘Myths’, Memes, and Former GOP Media Flunkies
Comments from Left Field — “If I had a world of my own, everything would be nonsense. Nothing would be what it is, because everything would be what it isn’t. And contrary wise, what is, it wouldn’t be. And what it wouldn’t be, it would. You see?” - Alice in Wonderland File under “Andrew Malcolm is a tool and a hack“: Greg Mitchell takes apart that Campaign Finance Institute (CFI) report on Barack Obama’s donors currently making the rounds: The Campaign Finance Institute (CFI) ...

Carol Platt Liebau: The "Small Donor" Myth
Townhall.com Blog's TownHall Blog — ... Posted by: Carol Platt Liebau at 3:14 PM Just another hole in the Obama-myth wall: The LA Times' Andrew Malcolm reports on a study proving that the Obama campaign's "small donor base" was, in fact, a myth . ...

Revising Obama
Discriminations — ... to a Los Angeles Times blog discussion of a new report from the Campaign Finance Institute revealing that “Obama’s small donor base image is a myth.” ...

Obama's small donor base image is a myth, new study reveals
The New Editor — From the Los Angeles Times' 'Top of the Ticket' blog: Everybody knows how President-elect Barack Obama's amazing campaign money machine was dominated by several million regular folks sending in hard-earned amounts under $200, a real sign of his broadbased grassroots support. Except, it turns out, that's not really true. In fact, Obama's base of small donors was almost exactly the same percent as George W. Bush's in 2004 -- Obama had 26% and the great Republican satan 25%. Obviously, this is unacceptable to current popular thinking. ...