Speaks for it self.

Real estate executive Jack Rosen has given Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton $8,800 since last November, nearly double the amount individuals can donate to any single presidential candidate this election.

He is able to do so because of a loophole in political fundraising laws — one that is allowing several presidential candidates to simultaneously collect donations for their presidential bid and other political entities connected to them.

One contender, Democrat Bill Richardson, has even collected corporate contributions, forbidden at the federal level, by using his New Mexico gubernatorial campaign account, which faces no such prohibition.

In all, 2008 presidential candidates have already raised more than $2 million outside of their official presidential campaigns since the Nov. 7 election, using congressional or state campaign committees, political action committees or IRS Section 527 political groups to do so, a Washington Post computer analysis found.

None of the money raised for that second committee or group can be spent in pursuit of the presidency, but a former elections official says the extra dollars nonetheless benefit presidential candidates

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