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The Interactive Presidency

By Joel Bleifuss

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 voted for him. This corps of supporters could change the… return to article

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    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!

    United States Posted by whattheheck on Jan 16, 2009 at 5:13 PM

    Well, at least it is audacity.

    United States Posted by whattheheck on Jan 16, 2009 at 5:14 PM
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