Barack Obama bypasses public financing for presidential campaign
Friday, June 20, 2008
WASHINGTON -- Barack Obama is abandoning public financing for his presidential campaign, reversing his earlier stance in certainty he can raise millions more on his own as the first major-party candidate to bypass a system that was hurried into place after the Watergate scandal.
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