A half a billion!
3 million donors made a total of 6.5 million donations online.
Added up to more than $500 million.
Of those 6.5 million donations, 6 million were in increments of $100 or less.
The average online donation was $80.
The average Obama donor gave more than once.
more details at the Washington Post.
I am proud of the skill of the campaign and I know this is what it took to win. But seriously, there is too much money in politics, and it has got to be fixed. The great news is that the average donation was small, and that more people gave than ever before. But elections should NOT be this expensive. We need campaign finance reform. Air time should be free, limited and equally distributed. The media is the big reason why campaigns need so much money in the first place. We need limits, public funding, and a return to the fairness doctrine.
