Foregoing public financing could be extremely wise move for Obama | Politivine.com

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Sen. Barack Obama, in a video message yesterday, officially declined to take the public financing route in order to fund his general election campaign for president. Under the public financing plan, Obama would have received $84 million for his campaign but has instead chosen to rely on his enormous bank of small donors and supporters to fund his presidential bid.

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