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Politics : President Barack Obama -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Mac Con Ulaidh who wrote (95494)	6/27/2011 12:06:58 PM
From: tejek	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 149317

Obama attracting more small donors The president's major fundraising filing will show a dramatic increase in the number of small donors so far this year compared with 2008. The tally is well over 300,000. By Tom Hamburger, Washington Bureau June 25, 2011, 5:00 p.m. Reporting from Washington— President Obama's next major fundraising filing will show a dramatic increase in the number of small donors so far this year compared with 2008, his campaign said Saturday. "We had 180,000 contributors at this point in the last campaign; now it's well over 300,000," said spokesman Ben LaBolt in an email previewing the upcoming filing. LaBolt declined to elaborate except to say in his note that the filing will show "small dollar contributors back in greater numbers." His email came a day after the Los Angeles Times/Tribune reported that the campaign had ramped up its efforts to lure large donors, including a new program called Presidential Partners that asks wealthy individuals to commit to giving $75,800 to the Obama Victory Fund, a joint project of the campaign and the Democratic National Committee. Obama set a high bar in 2008, raising nearly $750 million. Back then, the campaign boasted of the number of small donors who were participating. The public won't have a good sense of the fundraising by Obama or other presidential candidates until after the campaigns file their reports with the Federal Election Commission. Those documents are not released publicly until mid-July, but campaigns doing well tend to leak their numbers early. In advance of the end-of-the-month deadline for the upcoming report, all of the campaigns are hustling. Obama campaign manager Jim Messina sent an email to supporters Saturday saying, "A lot of people out there are wondering whether this campaign can inspire the kind of grass-roots support that has been the foundation of our success. A lot of people out there are already saying we can't. So we've got something to prove." His email says the campaign hopes to have 450,000 donors by June 30. tom.hamburger@latimes.com latimes.com

To: Mac Con Ulaidh who wrote (95494)	6/27/2011 12:15:23 PM
From: tejek	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 149317

I don't know about before, but twitter is a good avenue for that. There is a fair amount of discussion and it brings people along the spectrum, and importantly Muslim women along the spectrum. One thing it's doing is giving voice to Muslim women in predominantly who either don't wear or have to but don't want to do so. The women who do wear it and say they want to, it gives them an avenue to discuss the reasons free of it being a discussion of what men think they should do, one way or the other. Clearly, imo, Saudi Arabia and Afghanistan under the Taliban are places where they used forcefully for the lessening of women's place in the world. I only use twitter for major news events like elections so I would miss any discussion like the one above. Frankly, I don't like the forum...140 characters feels too limiting. Having said that, its been a great away for Muslims to get info quickly to the outside world. :) the bikini discussion hasn't come up much in my experience. tho talk of how do you enjoy the beach is discussed. I personally do not care bikinis, never have. A one piece is much more comfortable to me for swimming and with my family history of skin cancer, trompping about with extra pale skin in the sun is stupid not wise. :) I imagine that comments from women who wear burkas may be as harsh about women who wear bikinis as are those about women who wear burkas. Ugh.........that was a hard sentence to construct so early on a Monday AM. <g> As much as I hate burkas, I hate even more the fact that the Saudis don't let their women drive. That irritates the hell out of me. It makes me want to get violent.