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Obama opts out of federal campaign financing system
WASHINGTON - Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama said yesterday he will bypass the federal public financing system in the general election, abandoning an earlier commitment to take the money if his Republican rival did as well.
Obama, who set records raising money in the primary election, will forgo more than $84 million that would have been available to him in the general election....
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