In fact, if you go to BarackObama.com, you're redirected to a fundraising page that reads:
Barack Obama just announced a major strategic decision -- this campaign will not participate in the broken public financing system for the general election.
Our opponents are dedicated to manipulating this broken system to raise as much money as possible -- and they've proven they are very good at it.
To compete, Barack has decided to keep putting his faith in ordinary people like you giving only what you can afford.
Make your first contribution to Join Barack today, and declare your independence from our broken system.
A counter at that page informs us that "[X number of] citizens have declared their independence from a broken system by supporting the first presidential campaign truly funded by the people." When I visited, X = 81,538. The counter tells us that their goal is 75,000 by July 4. A lot of people, it turns out, aren't turned off by Obama's reversal. Setting an average gift (dollars raised divided by number of donors) of a very low and very conservative $25, we can asssume very, very safely that Barack Obama has raised over $2,038,450 with this appeal in a matter of days. But I'm guessing the average gift is much higher. He's done a lot better than that...
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