You are overly suspicious, just look at the amount of funds each candidate has raised this year. Then look at the type of campaign they are running and who is running it. Obama has been supported by the people and he has been for awhile. If you look back to the primaries he was almost doubling what Clinton was getting in through personal donations. People give what they can because they believe in the person and his message. Just because the people you know are not generous and don't believe in the process doesn't mean the rest of the population is.