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Frederico: The American people.
Who's giving Obama truckloads of cash? Ordinary Americans like you and me. From the $32 million January announcement: "Obama's one-month tally is the most ever reported for January of a presidential election year, Federal Election Commission reports show...Plouffe said the Obama campaign counted 170,000 new donors in the last month, bringing its total to 650,000."
$32,000,000 divided by 170,000 = a $188 average contribution, and that's not even counting people who gave money before January.
Obviously, some gave more and some gave less, but the sheer mathematics of it would suggest Obama's getting his money from regular folk.
(And, for what it's worth, I'm one of those new 170,000 -- I gave $200.)