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How Barack Obama Struck Fund-raising Gold -- New York Magazine

'A story in the Times reported that Obama had nailed two A-list New York donors: Soros and Wolf. '

'The investment banker Robert Wolf first met Barack Obama one afternoon in December in a midtown conference room. '

'New Yorkers have long understood the money primary and its importance in signaling a candidate’s plausibility. '

'How Obama, that is, won the money primary\x97or, at least, its first installment\x97and arguably turned himself into the race’s co-front-runner. '

'Wolf was wowed by Obama that afternoon: his straightforwardness, his \x93bold and impressive\x94 early stance against the Iraq war. '

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