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The $150 Million Man

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Obama smashes records in September.

Barack Obama’s campaign has made an art of sitting on their fundraising totals, then unveiling them with maximum impact. So drum roll, please: Obama announced this morning that he raised $150 million in September. The campaign claimed it added more than 600,000 new donors and that the average donation was $86. The haul beats Obama’s (and everyone else’s) previous record: $65 million in August. He has raised more than $600 million over the course of the campaign.

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