1.5M donate to Obama campaign

INDIANAPOLIS — Sen. Barack Obama has reached a fundraising milestone, announcing today on the campaign Web site that the Democratic presidential hopeful has received donations from 1.5 million people. The Obama Web site includes a graphic with fireworks making the record-breaking announcement, a piece of good news as voters go to the polls in Indiana and North Carolina to choose between the Illinois senator and Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton. “On the eve of the Indiana and North Carolina primaries, we reached another incredible landmark: The 1,500,000th person made a donation to this campaign,” the campaign announced in a blog item at 5:45 a.m. “This has been an incredible journey so far,” the campaign noted. “Along the way, we’ve heard from countless supporters who had never donated to a campaign before now, and inspiring stories of people who have challenged themselves to donate, to organize, to canvass and call to help build this movement.” On Feb. 27 right before the Texas and Ohio contests, Mr. Obama announced he had raised money from 1 million donors. “I don’t have any strings attached to me. The only people I owe are you,” Mr. Obama told voters that day in suburban Dallas, noting he has not accepted lobbyist donations. It’s a theme Mr. Obama has pushed on the campaign trail here and in North Carolina, telling employees of a semiconductor plant in Durham yesterday he thinks “The American people still believe that it’s relevant that I don’t take PAC and lobbyists’ money.” “As many attempts to knock us off stride as there have been, the fact that were still standing here and still moving forward towards the nomination I think indicates the degree to which the core message of this campaign is the right one: That its not enough just to replace the party in the White House, but weve got to change how politics is done, he said.