To answer your question: NO! I'm deep in student loan debt and I know I've definitely given more than $100 to my candidate. I'd say $1,000 is reasonable though if all we're concerned is the appearance of being bought off.

to lose the election. Why in the world would we willingly give the Republican party a blank check in November?

heck no, he should let us get as close as we can to $2,300 and use it to destroy the republicans across this country, if he can't use it all use his set up with the DNC, and the DNC can use it for other races, and get us more in the senate and the congress, maybe some governors. it'd be nice.

I am excited that he gets so many donors, but I don't see a reason to artificially handicap it.

I'd have been fine with public financing except:

(1) Republicans hit donor caps and just fund 527s instead, ruining the concept
(2) McCain is already breaking the law with respect to taking matching funds for the primary. Why trust him?

I wonder how much he has in his GE fund already? Because all the money he has raised isn't purely primary.

$100 is too low . . . maybe under $1000.

that say $1000.  After all we want to crush John McCain

...disagree in practice.  McCain is a terrible fundraiser and will probably take public funds no matter what we do.  If my tax money goes to funding his campaign, I want as big an advantage as possible against him.

The best possible result is for McCain and Obama to somehow work out an equitable arrangement for public financing, and we donors can just focus on giving money to local races and the DNC.  Such an arrangement, by the necessity of Obama's requirements (as put forth on the "pledge" that McCain is so prone to crow about), involves bipartisan legislation to limit outside groups such as 527s.

There's no way we're going to give up any advantages this year without getting something in return.

He's already told democrats not to fill up outside groups with funding for him, what more do we want?

I'm not opposed in theory, I'm just not sure I see the benefit.

It might be an interesting show of strength, and if he explicitly drew a line between himself and McCain, highlighting how he's doing what McCain says he will. And he could help the down ticket Dems. by sending any contributors that hit their limit with him to the DNC or someone else that can help fund other races. Positive Democratic messages on the ground help both ways.