Obama outsmarts the Other Candidates by Not Outsourcing. [View All]

according to CNN this afternoon on the Situation Room, other campaigns who are jealous of having oursourced their merchandise and not being able to count it as a donation are now beginning a whispering campaign against obama. he was smart enough to see direct and so can count it as a donation. This has rivials unhappy.
CNN talked to the campaign and the direct merchandise is one percent of the total donations.
I have bought online from the campaign and they say it's a donation. I agree they rivals starting the whispering campaign are jealous for not thinking of this. obama is simply more savvy. And since it is only 1 percent of the donations, as Obama has said, they are far ahead in the amount of donors that they don't need to play with the numbers or hide anything.


WASHINGTON (CNN) — Sen. Barack Obama, D-Illinois, is breaking fundraising records in his bid for the White House, but some people seem to be questioning the way he is adding up his numbers.

Even though he is a fresh face in a presidential race that boasts several veteran U.S. senators, current and former governors and the former mayor of New York City, Obama is beating them all when it comes to individual donors and the amount raised so far in the battle for the White House. How many individual contributors you ask? How about 258,000. He is the only African-American candidate in the race and on the campaign trail, Obama is treated like a rock star.

“You get stories of people who come to these Obama events and say, ‘I haven’t much been interested in politics, here, I’ll give you the money out of my handbag,’” said John Dickerson, a political journalist with the on-line publication Slate. “That gives a sense of momentum, a sense of movement.”

The junior senator from Illinois, who has been in office a little more than two years, is growing his supporter base in a non-traditional way. People who buy Obama campaign hats, buttons and bumper stickers are being counted as part of that record breaking number of contributors. At least four other presidential candidates: Sen. John McCain, R-Arizona; Rep. Tom Tancredo, R-Colorado; Rep. Duncan Hunter, R-California; and Rep. Dennis Kucinich, D-Ohio; also count such people as donors.

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