Obama is being very generous to the party:
MILWAUKEE — Everybody wants a piece of Barack Obama. Ahead by a mile in his race for the U.S. Senate from Illinois, the youthful state senator with huge ambitions is taking his show on the road to help Democrats from the bottom of the ticket to the very top.
In the past week, Obama has mailed checks totaling $260,000 to Senate candidates in 13 states, including $53,000 to the do-or-die campaign of Minority Leader Thomas A. Daschle (S.D.). He donated $100,000 to the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee and $150,000 to party organizations in key states, including Florida, Wisconsin and Colorado.
First. African-American. President.
I was up in Beloit on Saturday. People wanted our Obama buttons.
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Via JoinCrossBlog a great catch by the “So-Called” Austin Mayor on Obama’s fundraising: “While the remainder of Mr. Obama’s contributions were to support Democrats running for congressional offices and Democratic get-out-the-vote efforts, he also ‘[r]a…