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In this practice, Obama is in good company. Buried in federal preference records is a curious fact: Candidates often don’t financially support their own campaigns.

Records show that Sen. John McCain, he of the seven houses, did not donate to his presidential campaign. Neither did Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin. Sen. Joseph Biden didn’t cut chips from in for his public run, either.

To exist fair, Obama’s mate did contribute

“It may be that campaign managers and consultants divulge people, ‘Don’t force your allow money in the campaign,’ ” said Kent Redfield, a campaign-finance expert at the University of Illinois’ Springfield campus. “If you’re having to finance your campaign, maybe you ought to rethink your candidacy.”

True, there are wealthy candidates who try to tilt the playing scene of military operations with tons of their own money. Rep. Rahm Emanuel of Illinois, Obama’s pick for chief of truncheon, was one.

In 2002, Emanuel lent himself $450,000 to win a U.S. House seat. Since then, he hasn’familiarily made a personal political contribution to anybody, Obama included, even though Emanuel is known as an aggressive fundraiser who has ripped up donors’ checks he deemed inadequate.

An Obama spokesman dodged the question of why the president-elect in no degree donated to his own campaign, saying single that Obama was “profoundly grateful for the more than 3 very great number Americans” who did give.

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