Romney Makes a Big Fundraising Splash

Mitt Romney's presidential campaign staged a big media event designed to motivate voters and intimidate other candidates:

Mitt Romney "put on an unusual public fund-raising display for his presidential campaign yesterday, raising more than $6.5 million in an effort observers say was designed to intimidate rivals looking to challenge him for the conservative vote," the Boston Globe reports.

"Romney's army of volunteers used an Internet-based database built by his campaign that it's calling ComMitt, which allows fund-raisers to log donations and access information about Romney's positions on various issues. The idea, according to Romney finance director Spencer Zwick, was for his supporters to use their own contacts -- Christmas card lists, for example -- and not to be handed a list of names to cold-call."

Of course, Mormons have big families so if all they did was call Mitt's cousins they could probably tie up their whole day.