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Originally Posted by Drolefille
He does, to the FEC. He discloses the names of all of his donors above $300 to the public. Some of it is a quantity issue.
He's also refunded the money paid by the unverifiable names, prior to the story coming out, the campaign hasn't processed the ones listed yet, it takes at least a month.
ETA: McCain's is after the fact. It'd be easy for Obama to release donors in several months when everything's been processed. McCain is using public financing so he has no current donors.
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Certainly, Obama's task is different because the fundraising is ongoing, but he could have made the same data available that McCain did through the primary season had he wanted to.
At the risk of seeming to want to score cheap points, I will also note that Obama could also have elected to honor his initial pledge to rely on public financing.
I agree with you in doubting these donors are probably actually dangerous somehow. But it does point to a pretty big flaw in the system. And as someone who reported like I was supposed to, even for my small donation, and found myself linked on the internet as a result, it just bugs me that other people are playing games with the system. (The donors, not Obama.)
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