http://www.techpresident.com/blog/entry/23613/obama_s_40m Comments for "Obama's $40M" en http://www.techpresident.com/blog/entry/23613/obama_s_40m <p>As fundraising gets more and more transparent, it's important to learn how to read between the lines.&nbsp;As&nbsp;pathbreaking as the Obama campaign has been, they are a step back from the transparency of the Dean bat, which at least gave us real dollar figures in addition to a total number of donors.&nbsp;Neither could beat the transparency gold standard set by Ron Paul, who updated via a real-time XML+Flash element that <a href="http://www.ronpaulgraphs.com">was scraped for analytics.</a> Moreover, when the Paul campaign bulk uploaded offline contributions, they told people. The Obama "bat" turns out to be an indecipherable&nbsp;mix of real and fake data.</p> <p><a href="http://www.techpresident.com/blog/entry/23613/obama_s_40m">read more</a></p> http://www.techpresident.com/blog/entry/23613/obama_s_40m#comment Barack Obama fundraising transparency Fri, 04 Apr 2008 09:23:09 -0400 Patrick Ruffini 23613 at http://www.techpresident.com