Exclusive: Obama’s 2012 Digital Fundraising Outperformed 2008

Nearly a year ago, Barack Obama’s campaign manager Jim Messina took to YouTube with an expletive-laden post-holiday message for supporters. “People have speculated that this is a billion dollar campaign,” Messina said. “That’s bull—-.” And he meant it, at the time. But when the final numbers are counted, Obama’s aides now expect more than $1 billion dollars to have been raised by the 2012...