Too Many Supporters: Obama Donor Lists Too Large For FEC To Process

[DerekJ]

FEC, media can't handle Obama jackpot

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A milestone of sorts was reached earlier this year, when Obama, the Illinois senator whose revolutionary online fundraising has overwhelmed Clinton, filed an electronic fundraising report so large it could not be processed by popular basic spreadsheet applications like Microsoft Excel 2003 and Lotus 1-2-3.

Those programs can’t download data files with more than 65,536 rows or 256 columns.

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In a revealing insight into the significant fundraising disparity between the two Democrats and presumptive Republican presidential nominee, Arizona Sen. John McCain, it is still possible to download his reports with plain-old Excel.

Yet even those with access to higher-powered software capable of handling the Obama and Clinton data aren’t necessarily able to start crunching numbers on the 20th of each month, when the campaigns’ monthly reports are due at the FEC.

That’s partly because the agency’s website, which automatically processes and posts electronic data filed by the campaigns, on at least one occasion was unable to quickly process and post Obama’s report.

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[JimGinPA]

1. K&R

[ossman]

2. Like Carville said... Obama doesnt have a political campaign, he has a political party.

[Cha]

6. One thing carville has been right about..

Obama has reached out and his website is about networking and donating$$$ and we all responded and responded good.

[cliffordu]

3. Obama responds:

"Oops, My bad!"

[FrenchieCat]

4. LOL!

Obama is gonna force advancements in technology one way or the other.

[RamboLiberal]

5. Excel 2007 has 1,048,576 row limit and 16,385 columns

Wonder if that would handle the Obama FEC filing? FEC still operating like Hillary and McCain campaigns. Not ready for the 21st century campaign like Obama's.