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Uploaded: Thursday, May 31, 2012, 9:15 AM
Obama ahead in local fundraising in April
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By Dave Boyce
Almanac Staff Writer
Donors in April contributed $96,424 to presidential campaigns from ZIP codes in the Almanac's circulation area, according to the Center for Responsive Politics, which tracks money in politics.
April results from Atherton, Menlo Park, Portola Valley and Woodside add $65,924 to Mr. Obama's coffers, bringing his local year-to-date total to $919,916 for this election cycle, as compiled by OpenSecrets.org, the website of the Center for Responsive Politics in Washington, D.C. Former Gov. Mitt Romney received $30,500, bringing his overall local total to $537,490.
Mr. Obama led the month with 59 donors versus Mr. Romney's 19.
The totals do not include political action committee fundraising, including the unlimited fundraising by super PACs, nor do they note any clustering of donations from Peninsula fundraising parties.
Under the law, individuals are limited to giving $2,500 per campaign per election. Since there are two elections this year the primary in June and the general in November an individual's total gift can reach $5,000.
Because Mr. Obama is unopposed, his donors can give now for both the primary and general elections. Eleven donors gave $2,500 for the primary; 10 of them gave another $2,500 for the general, the report showed.
With the general-election donations factored out, Mr. Obama's total for April drops to $40,924.
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Posted by gunste, a resident of the Portola Valley: Ladera neighborhood, on May 31, 2012 at 2:47 pm The fundraising sport is now generally conceded to be the determinant of our elections, considering the amount of space the media devote to it. Since this suggests that elections are determined by the frequent half-truths and misleading hints about opponents, we could save a lot of money and cancel the voting. Just tote up the dollar total and the winner is: democracy is dead, because the electorate lacks adequate intelligence.
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Posted by D Adams, a resident of the Atherton: West Atherton neighborhood, on May 31, 2012 at 3:27 pm Golly, great idea.
Not.
Or we could publicly finance elections. Have politicians owe their 'favors' to the people who voted, not to those with the deepest pockets, whether they be corporate or union.
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Posted by McLaughlin, a resident of the Menlo Park: Sharon Heights neighborhood, on Jun 1, 2012 at 10:30 am [Post removed. Content was lifted from another web site.]
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Posted by copyright infringement, a resident of the Atherton: Lindenwood neighborhood, on Jun 1, 2012 at 10:41 am Snore... just a cut and paste from Rev Syung Moon's mouthpiece, the Washington Times.
Unatttributed copyright infringement of Seth McLaughlin's material.
Snore.
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Posted by copyright infringement, a resident of the Atherton: Lindenwood neighborhood, on Jun 1, 2012 at 11:05 am Are the editors leaving it up?
Shall we point out the inaccuracies by Rev Moon's blogger? or is it coming down anyway?
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Posted by Joshua, a resident of the Menlo Park: Sharon Heights neighborhood, on Jun 1, 2012 at 1:13 pm [Post removed. Content lifted from another web site.]
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Posted by mo fringies, a resident of the Atherton: Lloyden Park neighborhood, on Jun 1, 2012 at 1:24 pm Dude does like to steal content, doen't he?
This time from a Murdoch paper, not Rev Moon
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