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  • October 2008

    • Get the Most Bang for Your Activist Buck

      Slate  |  Oct 8, 08 8:44 PM CDT

      Get the Most Bang for Your Activist Buck

      (Newser) - There are a scant 27 days left to dedicate your blood, sweat, and tears to your candidate of choice. But some activists' moves are better than others. Christopher Beam runs down the best way to put your limited resources to good use in Slate: Got time to kill? Knock on doors to get out the vote, especially if you live in a swing state. Call people. It can work, ecspecially if you have something in common with those you call. Wave signs. It's easy enough. More »

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      Election 2008  • campaign advertising  • campaign contributions  • political activism  • volunteer

  • September 2008

    • Goldman Sachs Is DC's Top Sugar Daddy

      ABC News  |  Sep 26, 08 2:20 PM CDT

      Goldman Sachs Is DC's Top Sugar Daddy

      (Newser) - Goldman Sachs has given Washington plenty of reasons to help it out—43 million reasons, to be precise. Goldman bankers have been the nation’s biggest campaign contributors this year, and have poured more than $43 million into lobbying and campaign war chests since 1989, ABC News reports. “They are almost in a class by themselves,” one analyst said. More »

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      Barack Obama  • John McCain  • Financial Crisis  • bailout  • Henry Paulson  • Goldman Sachs  • campaign finance  • campaign contributions  • lobbying

    • The Long Island Rabbi Who Toppled Olmert

      New York  |  Sep 15, 08 5:33 PM CDT

      The Long Island Rabbi Who Toppled Olmert

      (Newser) - Morris Talansky counted Ehud Olmet as a true friend, and he says his devotion was returned. The nature of the longstanding relationship between the Long Island rabbi and the Israeli prime minister varies according to who’s describing it, Steve Fishman writes in New York . But what everyone agrees on is that the way Talansky showed his devotion—"cash envelopes" adding up to $150,000—was key in driving Olmert out of office . More »

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      Israel  • Ehud Olmert  • campaign contributions  • corruption charges  • Morris Talansky  • rabbi

    • Obama Pulls in Record $66M in August

      Politico  |  Sep 14, 08 10:04 AM CDT

      Obama Pulls in Record $66M in August

      (Newser) - Barack Obama raised more than $66 million in August, besting his past fundraising record and pulling in the best monthly tally in US political history, says an aide. Topping February's $55 million, the take "demonstrates how the increasingly heated, nasty race has energized Obama's fundraising," writes Ben Smith in Politico. The campaign also added 500,000 new donors during the month. John McCain raised $47 million in August. More »

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      Barack Obama  • Obama 2008  • campaign fundraising  • campaign contributions  • fundraiser

  • August 2008

    • Lawmakers Get Most Funding From Outside Districts

      Miller-McCune  |  Aug 30, 08 8:53 AM CDT

      Lawmakers Get Most Funding From Outside Districts

      (Newser) - Candidates running for Congress are increasingly using affluent ZIP codes outside their own districts as "political ATM machines" to fund their campaigns, a new study finds. In the majority of House races in 2004, almost three-quarters of contributions came from donors outside a lawmaker's district—often from Hollywood, Manhattan's Upper East Side, and other white, moneyed areas. Today's donors are “urban, highly educated, and employed in elite occupations," reports Miller-McCune magazine. More »

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      campaign fundraising  • campaign finance  • campaign contributions  • scientific study  • donors  • political elite

    • Sports Owners Put Their Money on McCain

      Politico  |  Aug 15, 08 5:24 PM CDT

      Sports Owners Put Their Money on McCain

      (Newser) - Hollywood money may be filling Barack Obama’s coffers, but sports-owners’ cash is overwhelmingly going to John McCain. The presumptive GOP nominee has raked in $3.2 million raised or donated by sports owners, while Obama has drummed up only $615,000, Politico reports. Even in Chicago, Obama’s hometown, McCain took in six times more than Obama from local team owners. More »

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      Barack Obama  • John McCain  • sports  • campaign contributions

    • McCain Raises $27M in July

      Associated Press  |  Aug 15, 08 11:48 AM CDT

      McCain Raises $27M in July

      (AP) - John McCain raised $27 million in July, his largest one-month fundraising haul since clinching the nomination, while the Republican National Committee brought in nearly $26 million. "Our fundraising continues to be very healthy," Rick Davis, McCain's campaign manager, said in a conference call with reporters, noting that July was the fifth straight month in which McCain has improved his cash flow. More »

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      John McCain  • McCain 2008  • campaign finance  • campaign contributions

    • Exec: I Was Fired for Not Donating to Mitt

      Wall Street Journal  |  Aug 7, 08 1:56 PM CDT

      Exec: I Was Fired for Not Donating to Mitt

      (Newser) - An ex-executive with a Chicago-based consulting group has filed an employment bias complaint, alleging that he was fired in part for his refusal to donate to Mitt Romney’s campaign, the Wall Street Journal reports. The complaint offers a rare glimpse into the machinery of corporate donations. In emails seen by the Journal , Huron Group’s CEO asks employees to back the Republican. “This is just business and the way business works,” he writes. More »

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      Mitt Romney  • campaign finance  • campaign contributions  • corporate  • corporate execs  • Huron

  • July 2008
  • May 2008

    • Lobbyists to McCain: Gee, Thanks, Traitor

      Politico  |  May 21, 08 11:14 AM CDT

      Lobbyists to McCain: Gee, Thanks, Traitor

      (Newser) - John McCain has been purging his campaign of lobbyists, which has left more than a few feeling betrayed. These are the people, after all, who stuck through McCain when his primary chances looked grim, and kept his campaign financially above water. “If it was OK to have these people working for you in February, why is it not OK today?” asked one lobbyist. More »

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      John McCain  • McCain 2008  • campaign contributions  • Republican nomination  • lobbyists  • lobbying

    • Spitzer Makes Amends—With His Donors

      New York Post  |  May 15, 08 12:11 PM CDT

      Spitzer Makes Amends—With His Donors

      (Newser) - Eliot Spitzer had $2.9 million in the bank for a presumed reelection campaign, but the disgraced New York governor has done something rather uncommon for politicians: offered a refund. An email obtained by the New York Post reports that Spitzer will return what remains in his campaign coffers to anyone who makes a request. "When have you ever heard of getting a refund from a politician?" said one stunned Dem. More »

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      New York  • Eliot Spitzer  • sex scandal  • campaign contributions  • refund

    • Clinton Camp May Need Another Loan

      New York Times  |  May 9, 08 12:43 PM CDT

      Clinton Camp May Need Another Loan

      (Newser) - Hillary Clinton's loss of momentum is taking a tangible toll on her ability to raise—and spend—money, leaving her campaign even more strapped for cash at a time she needs to pull out all the stops, the New York Times reports. Advisers say that Clinton is prepared to shell out more of her own, adding to the $11 million she's already provided. More »