Prometheus 6

Obama’s Money Class
By DAVID BROOKS

Barack Obama sells the Democratic Party short. He talks about his fund-raising success as if his donors were part of a spontaneous movement of small-money enthusiasts who cohered around himself. In fact, Democrats have spent years building their donor network. Obama’s fund-raising base is bigger than John Kerry’s, Howard Dean’s and Al Gore’s, but it’s not different.

I guess you could say that. After all, there's only one national populations from which to solicit contributions.

But you could also say bigger is different.