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"In a sense, Obama represents a triumph of campaign-finance reform... he has realized the reformers’ other big goal of ending the system whereby a handful of rich donors control the political process. He has done this ... by ... democratizing the system b
"Obama’s machine attracts large and small donors alike, those who want to give money and those who want to raise it, veteran activists and first-time contributors, and—especially—anyone who is wired to anything: computer, cell phone, PDA."
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He's democratized "the system by flooding it with so many new contributors that their combined effect dilutes the old guard to the point that it scarcely poses any threat."
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