it's cute how this right wing "news" organization thinks that Obama should release the names of the private citizens who have donated to his campaign.
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But Obama easily could outpace McCain by $50 million to $100 million or more in new donations before Election Day, thanks to a legion of small contributors whose names and addresses have been kept secret.
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speaking as one of those small donors I'd be REALLY pissed off if my name and address were released publically.
http://www.opensecrets.org/pres08/su...&cid=N00009638
you can go to opensecrets.org and look at each candidates contributions... Obama is 100% reporting, McCain is at 90%
John McCain:
Source of Funds
Individual contributions $184,758,250 80%
PAC contributions $1,346,385 1%
Candidate self-financing $0 0%
Federal Funds $0 0%
Other $43,935,187 19%
Full Disclosure $120,487,193 (85.8%)
Incomplete $4,251,363 (3.0%)
No Disclosure $15,639,794 (11.1%)
Barack Obama:
Source of Funds
Individual contributions $426,902,991 94%
PAC contributions $450 0%
Candidate self-financing $0 0%
Federal Funds $0 0%
Other $27,152,882 6%
Full Disclosure $208,324,513 (92.4%)
Incomplete $4,007,504 (1.8%)
No Disclosure $13,151,898 (5.8%)
tell us again, who is keeping secrets?