WSJ: Obama’s Boon: Givers Who Keep On Giving

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Many of Sen. Barack Obama’s small-dollar donors turn out to have big pockets, and data suggest he will have little trouble raising the minimum $200 million political analysts say he will need to fund a general-election campaign in the fall.

Nearly 2,000 donors to the Illinois Democrat’s presidential campaign during the past 18 months have reached the $1,000 mark or higher in cumulative gifts, a Wall Street Journal analysis of campaign-finance data through the end of April shows.

More than 240 had reached their legal limit of donating $2,300 to Sen. Obama’s primary campaign.

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