(Guardian) Barack Obama has called on rich donors to "pay" for a new kind of politics, as he attended his 31st private fundraiser of the year in the home of a cable television executive.
On Thursday night, amid criticism of the time the president is spending on political financing, Obama took a five-hour detour to fly to Philadelphia during one of the toughest days of his presidency, in order to raise more than $1m for midterm election campaigns in the Senate.
On Tuesday, a Guardian investigation revealed that Obama is carrying out nearly twice as much fundraising as recent predecessors averaged after their re-election year, and more than three times as much as George W Bush averaged in the same period.
In his speech to donors at the home of Comcast executive David Cohen, Obama acknowledged the distorting effect of campaign finance.
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