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House Dems outraise Republicans in May
Monies. As Ed recounted this morning, the 25 seats the Democrats would need to win to retake control of the House this November seems like a mighty steep climb by most counts. Their political images...
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Aww: Obama’s “Bundler-Ambassadors” not contributing in 2012
Save us, billionaires, from the eeeeevil … billionaires! I’m actually loathe to excerpt too much from this Huffington Post report filed by Howard Fineman and Paul Blumenthal, because it’s almost a...
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Senior Obama campaign official: “We are going to be the first incumbent...
Change. Is this spin aimed at lowering expectations so that they can pretend to be happily shocked later when they end up outraising Romney and his Super PACs after all? Or is the “first...
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Romney raises over $100,000 in less than an hour after SCOTUS ruling; Update:...
Fired up — ready to go? What impact will the Supreme Court ruling on ObamaCare have on the presidential election? Perhaps one measure could be seen in its immediate aftermath: According to Romney...
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Romney, RNC raise $4.6 million after SCOTUS decision
Tea Party back — and more effective than ever? Yesterday may have been tough on Republicans in general and conservatives opposed to big expansions of federal power, but the news wasn’t all bad....
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Exclusive: Inside story on how Team Romney rode the online SCOTUS wave
Transforming from a campaign to a cause. By now, everyone knows that Mitt Romney and the RNC raised a whole lot of online cash in the immediate aftermath of the Supreme Court decision on ObamaCare....
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Obamateurism of the Day
Days of whines and moroses. Here’s one definition of change: In 2008, the Obama campaign bragged about how badly they tromped John McCain in fundraising and campaign spending. Eighteen months ago,...
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Obama fundraising on Air Force One?
Legal, but not smart. In the OOTD this morning, The Daily Beast’s Lloyd Grove got the inside scoop on President Obama’s fundraising conference call made from Air Force One on Friday, as one of the...
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GOP: Golly, we’re raising a lot of money after ObamaCare ruling
Down ticket, too. Golly isn’t exactly the word in the quote that BuzzFeed uses to describe the volume of Republican fundraising in the wake of the Supreme Court ruling on ObamaCare. Instead, GOP...
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Team Romney sets GOP fundraising record in June
Oh, it’s on. After outraising the DNC and the Obama money machine in May, raising $77 million to their $60 million, Team Romney is still hauling in the campaign cash, far surpassing their own monthly...
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Obamateurism of the Day
Spent. Most of us recall the 2008 election, when Barack Obama busted the limits of fundraising and spending — and became the first presidential candidate since Watergate to opt out of the public...
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Official Romney/RNC fundraising number for June: $106.1 million
Ramping up. Last week, the media reported that the joint fundraising effort between Team Romney and the RNC had raised $100 million, a new Republican record. That report was apparently unofficial —...
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Team Obama: Romney beat us in June by $35 million
“We still got beat. Handily.” Normally, a $71 million month would look pretty good … but not when compared to the competition this time around. Looks like Team Obama is starting to understand how...
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Has Obama peaked?
Downhill? Conn Carroll’s post is kryptonite to an eeyore, but I owe you guys some sunshine after yesterday’s raincloud about Romney’s chances after the debates. Note the big “if” built in here. Worse...
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Bad news: The Obama bridal registry not as popular as you’d imagine
Bummer. It’s summer, so we’re right in the middle of wedding season, where brides schedule their big day when the weather will be most likely to cooperate. There is so much to do — planning the food,...
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Looks like Wall Street isn’t crushing quite so hard on Obama this time around
Harry Reid: “Angry old white men” are trying to buy the election. During the run-up to the 2008 presidential election, Barack Obama was big finance’s favorite candidate by a long shot. Perhaps hoping...
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Obama fundraising with “ruthless” off-shorer in Austin?
Texas toast. Picture this. Barack Obama delivers a big speech in Austin, Texas, one of the few hospitable venues for Democrats in the deeply red state, slamming Mitt Romney for “outsourcing” as a...
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Quotes of the day
Monies. By the end of June, Romney’s campaign, along with the party fundraising committees, had $170 million in cash reserves, $26 million more than Obama and the Democratic committees had available....
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Great news: Famously humble hostess to headline another Obama bash
Burn, baby, burn. Remember, now, that this is the campaign and the candidate that wants to paint Mitt Romney as out of touch with the common man. Recall this rather condescending call to the hoi...
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Team Obama: Romney really needs to prove his overseas trip isn’t “one long...
Rabble rabble rabble. Mitt Romney is embarking on an international visit later this week, heading to London on Thursday for the Olympic opening ceremonies and then swinging through Poland and Israel —...
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Poll shows Obama character-attack strategy flopping
Whiff. Barack Obama’s campaign has spent tens of millions of dollars attempting to paint Mitt Romney as an unsavory businessman, a clueless tycoon, and even accused him at one point of being a...
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Obama now issuing instructional videos on how to send him money
Tech president. Key quote from a guy who broke his promise four years ago to accept public financing so that he could assemble the most lucrative campaign in American history: “We don’t get some of...
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NYT notices Obama campaign’s increasing desperation for contributions
Honesty. Politicians use their e-mail lists to continually hit their base with requests for donations. Everyone who puts their name on a political list expects to see those e-mails on a constant...
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Quotes of the day
Next steps. Mitt Romney has lost each of the last 40 days, each day in its own way. Now his campaign, finally reckoning with a summer of effective fundraising and disastrous messaging, is hoping the...
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Romney/RNC raise $101.3 million in July
Rolling. Momentum has not slacked for Mitt Romney and the RNC during the traditionally slow summer period. For the second straight month, the two combined to raise more than $100 million for the...
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Team Obama raises $75 million in July …
… announced in a tweet. You have to hand it to Team Obama. What they lack in competitiveness, they provide in, er … brevity: Reporting back on last month’s fundraising numbers: In July, 761,000...
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Romney/Ryan haul: $3.5 million in 24 hours
Comeback. How did America react to Mitt Romney’s selection of Paul Ryan as his running mate? According to the one measure that literally counts … pretty spectacularly. The online fundraising for the...
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Oh my: Romney’s cash advantage over Obama grows to more than $60 million
Burn rate. Jay Cost calls this the biggest news of the day. It’s not just the raw numbers that are significant, it’s how Romney’s building his advantage: Obama’s campaign is dumping money into attack...
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Romney kicks in $3 million to NRCC, NRSC
Confidence. How well has Mitt Romney’s fundraising proceeded? So well that he’s willing to share the wealth: Romney’s biggest grossing committee last month steered at least $3 million to boost GOP...
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