Originally Posted by
BigandSlow
Mccain chose to take government funding for his campaign, so he's not allowed to use donations. Obama took a chance and decided not to take taxpayer dollars and has been able to raise crazy amounts of money by people freely donating to his campaign. I don't know exact numbers for any of this but it's not a secret, it's all public record.
He also has some very shady practices with internet donations being properly screened; however I am sure he will have plausible deniability over it.