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Dave Eggers-Blame America First Defeat-ocrat?


Through The Huffington Post's new campaign cash tracker Fundrace I now know that Dave Eggers gave $2,300 to Barack Obama.

On the one hand, I'm glad that I can find the name and business of every single donor to every presidential/political campaign in America, but on the other hand, I'm not sure I'd like everyone knowing who I gave my financial support to. In the same vein of distrusting electronic voting machines because they strike at the very heart of democracy, the vote, I don't want to see who a friend or family member donated to, and have that slant my view of them even a tiny bit, and vice versa.

Privacy versus the publics right to know is a tricky question. I'll probably just do what I normally do; spy around to see who my neighbors gave cash to, and then become completely indignant when I find out they did the same with me. That's America.