President-elect Barack Obama owns the names, e-mail addresses and gigabytes of other data on 13 million Americans who signed up to receive news from his campaign. Those 13 million -- 3.1 million of whom contributed a total of $700 million -- account for 19 percent of the 67 million Americans who [RETURN TO ARTICLE]
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Reader Comments
Yes, there is hope at last.
All Obama needs to do is get those 13 million Americans to kick in a tad more than $65,000 each and a $850 billion stmulus package is paid for.
Now, that’s CHANGE we can believe in!
Well, at least it is audacity.
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