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Post by Idéfix Thu May 03, 2012 10:13 pm

Nate Silver of FiveThirtyEight came into the limelight during the 2008 campaign, and now he has a blog at The New York Times. His blog has an excellent article comparing the sources of funding for Obama and Romney, and what it means for the election this November.

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As the picture shows, Romney is raising the bulk of his money from big donors who can afford to give the maximum-permissible amount of $2,500, while Obama gets the bulk of his money from small donors giving less than $200 each.

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Romney may eventually catch up with Obama in terms of these small donations; whether he manages to do that may be an early indication of the outcome of this race.
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