P R E S I D E N T I A L C A N D I D A T E
Barack Obama (D)
Senator from Illinois
Obama's victory in the general election was aided by his tremendous fund-raising success. Since the start of 2007, his campaign relied on bigger donors and smaller donors nearly equally, pulling in successive donations mostly over the Internet. After becoming his party's nominee, Obama declined public financing and the spending limits that came with it, making him the first major-party candidate since the system was created to reject taxpayers' money for the general election.
Cash on Hand: $15,466,043
Debts: $434,954
Date of last report: Dec 31 2008 12:00AM
Totals may include compliance fund receipts
Total Raised by Quarter
Source of Funds
Individual contributions | $656,357,572 | 88% | |
PAC contributions | $1,830 | 0% | |
Candidate self-financing | $0 | 0% | |
Federal Funds | $0 | 0% | |
Other | $88,626,223 | 12% |
How complete are this candidate's campaign finance reports?
Full Disclosure | $378,216,383 | (90.2%) | |
Incomplete | $15,611,429 | (3.7%) | |
No Disclosure | $25,289,671 | (6.0%) |
NOTE: All the numbers on this page are for the 2008 election cycle.
Summary and Fundraising by Quarter numbers are based on
Federal Election Commission data released electronically on September 20, 2008. All other numbers
are based on data released electronically on Monday, July 13, 2009.
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