The Daily Background

Barack Obama’s presidential campaign was expected to announce Wednesday that they had received donations from a record 500,000 donors, most of them small, in the first 51 days of the year.

Before Obama’s decisive wins in Wisconsin and Hawaii, the campaign had received only about 460,000 donations this year. The publicity the campaign received in the mere hours after his wins however propelled them well over the 500K mark (which they had hoped to meet before March 4th when Texas and Ohio, Rhode Island and Vermont cast their ballots).

Obama has raised about $150M since he announced his candidacy in February 2007, including $36M in January.

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