Quick Donate Transformed Political Fundraising in 2012

President Barack Obama's 2012 campaign was just as innovative as his first, making use of revolutionary new digital tools to help secure victory on Election Day.

Among the most important tools in Obama's digital utility belt was Quick Donate, which was recently named by Facebook co-founder Chris Hughes as one of the top five innovations in government and politics, alongside NationBuilder, Upworthy, Mobile Commons and Organizer.com. You, the Mashable community deemed Quick Donate the winner of the Mashable Innovation Index's Politics and Government category.

Quick Donate was simple -- appropriately named, it allowed Obama's campaign to store the credit card information of supporter…
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