Big money is coming into assorted Democratic Party accounts to help Democrats win in November. The Washington Post reports this morning:
"Behind Obama's staggering fundraising numbers, compiled on more than 80,000 pages filed with the Federal Election Commission late Monday, are signs that it was far more than just a surge of Internet donors that fueled a coordinated Democratic effort to try to swamp McCain.
"Interest among major party donors grew so fevered that the Democratic Party created a separate committee to capture millions of additional dollars from individuals who had already given Obama the most the law allows and who had also anted up $28,500 to the Democratic National Committee.
"The Committee for Change, created in mid-July, has become a vehicle for ultra-rich Democratic donors to distinguish themselves from the 3.1 million others who have put $600 million behind Obama's presidential candidacy.
"'We kept running into donors who had maxed out to Obama Victory who wanted to do additional money and had the capacity to do it and were eager to do it,' said Alan Kessler, a Philadelphia lawyer who recently held a fundraiser for the committee. 'They asked if there were vehicles and other ways to do it, and we said yes.'
"The committee, which has been routing millions of dollars directly to state party accounts and will help fuel Obama's field operations, represents the flip side of the grass-roots fundraising effort that helped turn Obama into the most successful money-raiser in presidential campaign history."
So not all the money comes from donors on the internet. But even the Republicans are impressed at what the "small" donors have been able to do, in aggregate.
The base of support gets even broader and deeper when volunteers for the Obama campaign are counted -- state by state, town by town.
