Rank and file voters have trouble giving anybody money after McCain-Finegold. A candidate virtually has to be independently wealthy to win nowadays (which is why I think the winner will be Romney, who is independently wealthy and can spend everybody else into oblivion).
I worked with the local GOP during the last election, and the little old ladies who did the recording of donations were in mortal fear of making an error that would end up with jail or a fine. For example, if there was a fundraising dinner and one person bought a table, simply for convenience, and then his friends bought their tickets from him, it counted as an illegal contribution. And if they didn’t record it correctly (remember, these are elderly volunteers) they were considered to have participated in the “crime.”
McCain Finegold essentially made the little donor completely meaningless.
Huck getting desperate for money; mark this thread.