Obviously, the Republican's campaign coffers were stuffed by fat cats and special interests, Big Biz, the gun lobby, the Oil Industry and the Zionists. Nobody who had the American people's own interests at heart.
Obama found a way through the internet to appeal directly to the common people and raise their money so that he is beholden to none of those special interests, or probably more accurately, beholden to them less than any previous Republican or Democratic candidate ever was.