Was Barack Obama’s campaign financed by giant far-left celebrity donations?
No. It is true that Obama has broken fundraising records—but he follows campaign finance laws like everybody else. The guy who cut my hair told me he’d heard that Oprah donated $100 million to Obama’s campaign. Apparently he believed that Obama’s remarkable fundraising success came from a few big donors who somehow bought the primary process. Under federal election law, the maximum donation to a political campaign is $2,300. Since the primary and general elections count separately, there is a maximum individual donation of $4,600. By law, any donation over $200 is public information, so you can check to see where all the donations came from. Oprah, for example, donated $2300 to Obama’s campaign. Obama raised over $264 million. Over half of that came from donations under $200. The donations came from over 1.5 million people. His fundrasing report was so massive that it broke Excel 2003.
