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Lobbyist campaign contributions by candidate for 2008 presidential elections.

On a semi related note: Candidates get to keep any leftover campaign funds after their campaign ends. WTF? I always thought it went into a general fund for future candidates who opt for matching federal funds, or something.

Per NPR:

New York Sen. Hillary Clinton put $5 million of her own money into her campaign during the run-up to the Super Tuesday primaries on Feb. 5. Clinton transferred the money late last month, her campaign says, characterizing the transaction as a loan from the candidate.

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Clinton becomes the second presidential candidate this election cycle to put personal money into the race. Republican and former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney has lent his campaign more than $35 million since he announced his candidacy.

Are the corporate purse strings tightening? Or something worse:

Clinton faces significant fundraising obstacles ahead, raising the possibility that she might have to dip into the family’s wealth again. The Clinton’s financial disclosures, which reveal only broad ranges of assets, place their wealth between $10 million to $50 million.

Campaign spokesman Howard Wolfson said the loan came from Sen. Clinton’s “share of their joint resources.”

An analysis by the Campaign Finance Institute, which tracks trends in political money, found that Obama raised about a third of his money in 2007 from donors who gave $200 or less. Only one-third of his money came from donors who have given the legal maximum of $2,300, compared to Clinton. She has raised about half of her money from “maxed out” donors and only 14 percent from donors of $200 or less.

Curiouser and curiouser.

Update: Apparently some of Clinton’s staffers are going without pay. And in other news, the Obama campaign raised $6+ million in the 24 hours since the polls closed Tuesday, to match Clinton’s $5 million “donation” to her own campaign.

“Evidence” is not the plural of “anecdote.”