Obama Raises $55 Million in February. Whew!

The New Online Fundraising Paradigm
* “PR is the business of letting people in on what you are doing,” said my first mentor in the business, ex-Ziegfeld Follies showgirl Evelyn Lawson, publicity director at the Ivoryton (Conn.) Playhouse in 1951. This is precisely what the Obama campaign is up to.

* By spewing out daily letters, diaries, press releases and blogs from all over the campaign and from around the country, the campaign makes its flock feel like real insiders — integral parts of the great democratic political process.