Does this Mean Obama’s Raised Enough Money?

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2:41 PM, Oct 10, 2012 • By GEOFFREY NORMAN

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It is, however, interesting to imagine an alternate universe in which someone like, say, Senator Charles Schumer is suddenly rendered unable to go out and raise truckloads of hot political cash. One imagines him experiencing symptoms much like those any addict suffers during withdrawal. Fundraising is what people like Schumer do. They are good at it. And there is an immediate payoff, a high, when they get that pledge or that check. This is real action, unlike the slow, tedious working of the legislative process.

Get the money out of politics?

Tell us another one.