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Carmelo Anthony donates to Obama campaign by text message
Posted: 08.31.2012 at 2:31 PM
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NEW YORK -- The Mitt Romney and President Obama campaigns are accepting donations from text messages this election season.
Former Syracuse University basketball star Carmelo Anthony tweeted Friday afternoon saying that he donated $10 to the President Obama campaign. Within half an hour, the tweet was retweeted over 150 times.
The Obama campaign launched a text-to-donate campaign last week and the Romney campaign followed with the launch of one this week.
According to MittRomey.com, donors can text the word "GIVE" to 37377 to donate $10 to the Romney Campaign.
To donate to the Obama campaign, donors can text a value to 62262 to donate that value, according to BarackObama.com.