Not by elite donors though. As I understand, it was donations from a very large user base: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Barack_Obama_presidential_campaign,_2008" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Barack_Obama_presidential_camp...</a><p><i>The campaign raised much of its cash in small donations over the internet, with about half of its intake coming in increments of less than $200.[53] Both major party campaigns screened regularly for patterns of abuse and returned or rejected donations in excess of legal limits, from overseas, from untraceable addresses, or from fraudulent names</i><p>and his second campaign had 3 times larger user base.