The Obama campaign just filed its last quarter's Federal Election Commission report, revealing once again that the president's knack for microfinancing -- often through selling overpriced trinkets on his website -- is providing him with quite the war chest for next year. "In the 4th quarter of 2011, $68 million were raised to help reelect President Obama," the report reads. "583,000 donors gave to the campaign in q4, 200,000 of whom had never given before, even in 2008. The average contribution this quarter was $55, and 98 percent of our contributions were $250 or less." That's roughly the cost of ten Birther mugs at BarackObama.com.
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Adam Clark Estes
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