Dr. Dean is pushing Internet donors to raise millions more before Tuesday.
On the internet donors are asking anything from $10,000 to $250,000 for a kidney, seemingly at random.
It introduced an online art auction; Internet donors traded campaign checks for an original Andy Warhol print, signed Robert Rauschenberg prints and an original Chuck Close photograph.
It remains to be seen how much Mr. Obama's campaign army of Internet donors might subsidize festivities that most are not likely to be attending.
This time around, the president clearly wants to have it both ways by galvanizing bundlers and their wealthy and powerful friends as much as small Internet donors.
While Mrs. Clinton's campaign has also generated more first-time volunteers and many more small-money Internet donors in Texas than it has elsewhere, the difference in the grass-roots flavor of the campaigns can be seen almost everywhere.
He fired his campaign manager after the defeat, and his campaign chairman talked about the necessity of Mr Dean winning one primary in the next two weeks in order to maintain his army of internet donors.Mr Edwards failed to convert his second-place finish in Iowa into New Hampshire success.
Scientists have tried to tap internet donors, too, with mixed success.
