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Given the controversy surrounding the fictitious names found in Barack Obama's donor database, last night I asked the campaign's chief strategist, David Axelrod: 'In the interest of full transparency, would you consider releasing the names of donors under $200”?

Here's what he had to say:

"The fact is that we have 2.5 or more million donors...and the logistical nightmare associated with that in the closing weeks of the campaign are such that it would be very hard to do. I think that what we would be willing to do is say that in the future, we’ll have a mechanism in place, because we didn’t know, nobody anticipated the volume of support that we’ve gotten in this campaign.”

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Obamamarx| 10.16.08 @ 11:14AM

It's too bad they don't use computers

crazy| 10.16.08 @ 1:55PM

Yes indeed. Pressing "Print" is such a difficult thing to do for a high-tech operation like this. Regardless, somehow they manage to gather that credit card info - maybe he could release that...

Not your Sweetie| 10.18.08 @ 7:33AM

What??? This from the campaign who mocked McCain's computer skills?

Pale Lion| 10.18.08 @ 9:32AM

Excuse me...what about the names of the newly registered voters ACORN has registered. They can't do THAT either. Ah, but the credit card numbers...

chimera| 10.18.08 @ 9:42AM

Why should we expect transparency from the Democrat's version of Karl Rove? And Obama doesn't ever tell the truth anyway. I was once proud to be a Democrat b/c the Republicans were the party of dirty tricks. Isn't it great the Dems caught up? I am now an Independent.

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