Key quote: "No federal lobbyists will be permitted to contribute financially to the transition effort, Barack Obama's transition chief John Podesta announced Tuesday during a press conference inside the team's Washington headquarters."
Key quote: "Sen. Barack Obama's presidential campaign is allowing donors to use largely untraceable prepaid credit cards that could potentially be used to evade limits on how much an individual is legally allowed to give or to mask a contributor's identity, campaign officials confirmed."
Key quote: "All the numbers on this page are for the 2008 election cycle and based on Federal Election Commission data released electronically on Friday, October 17, 2008."
Key quote: "The Committee for Change, created in mid-July, has become a vehicle for ultra-rich Democratic donors to distinguish themselves from the 3.1 million others who have put $600 million behind Obama's presidential candidacy."
Key quote: "MANY IN HIS own party questioned whether Sen. Barack Obama was right to forgo $84 million in federal funds for the general election in order to be free to raise and spend unlimited amounts on his own."
Key quote: "Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama has raised about $3.3 million from contributors who did not list a home state or who designated their state with an abbreviation that did not match one of the 50 states or U.S. territories, according to records provided by the Federal Election Commission."
Key quote: "His campaign has now raised more than $600 million, almost equaling what all the candidates from both major parties collected in private donations in 2004.”
Key quote: "Steve and Rachel Larman say a strange credit card charge appeared on their statement this month -- a $2300 donation to Barack Obama's presidential campaign. The Larman's say they don't want this to be about their political affiliation, but they say they're not about to give the Obama campaign any help from their pocketbook."
Key quote: "Barack Obama's massive spending on television -- $21 million for the first week of October alone -- coupled with his decision to buy 30 minutes of prime time television at the end of the month has stoked rumors that the Illinois senator may have shattered all fundraising records for the month of September."
Key quote: "In "The Obama Chronicles" segment tonight: You don't get to be a presidential candidate without a lot of help. Barack Obama accumulated his power base in Chicago by allying himself with some very interesting characters, probably people you have never heard of."
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