President-elect Barack Obama's record-breaking $750 million campaign haul, much of it collected from small donors, may be a game changer in more ways than one, National Journal contributor Eliza Newlin Carney reports in her column Rules of the Game. It's prompted some experts to call for a whole new approach to regulating political money. And Obama's knack for mobilizing millions of supporters via the Internet has implications for policy-making, too, as the incoming administration gears up to tap those backers to help him enact his policies, starting with healthcare reform.

                                                                                                                       --Bara Vaida