Who are Obama's biggest donors?

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Barack Obama's campaign just published the full list of his donors.

Change.gov: The Obama-Biden Transition Team | Donors

They put it on a 'blist' spreadsheet. Its apparently all there, but its pretty badly laid out. You can sort columns ascending/descending in the normal way, but if you sort numbers (i.e. size of donation, it sorts by the first, second, third (etc) number rather than the actual amount. You could theoretically print it off and plough through their 53,853 donors but that would be fairly arduous.

The page failed after a couple of minutes, but that may well be because of the amount of traffic.

'The Obama-Biden Transition Project' profess to be publishing the information "In keeping with President-elect Obama's pledge to run the most open and transparent transition in history" but it would appear that they wish to avoid coverage similar to the headlines Clinton suffered last week.

I wonder whether on request they would provide an excel spreadsheet which could be effectively scoured. Perhaps they should put up a link to one, or alternatively sort the existing list out pronto, in the interests of transparency.

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