It's all about the Benjamins
If you believe that following the dollars is more important than listening to what people say, you too may be amazed by the response to Move On's Voter Fund. They're raising money to run ads criticizing the administration, and as of this writing, less than three days into the campaign, they've pulled in over 1.5 million dollars. If this effort is like their previous ones, that sum came from thousands of smaller contributers, not the few captains of industry that old-skool politicos employ. I've long been a big believer in the democratizing potential of the internet, but I'm amazed that this volume of actual money is being collected by what are, to my understanding, a handful of folks organizing through the net.
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