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July 2008
- Obama Raises $25M in a Single Day
  
  newser | Politico | Jul 21, 08 11:47 AM CDT
  
  Barack Obama brought in more donations on the last day of June than John McCain did in the entire month, Politico reports. The unprecedented $25 million day accounted for nearly half of Obama’s $54 million total. It was one of five days on which the campaign brought in more than $1 million; John McCain had no million-dollar days en route to raising $22 million in June. More »
  
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  Barack Obama • John McCain • Obama 2008 • campaign fundraising • McCain 2008 • Republican National Committee
- McCain's Elite Fundraisers Trump Obama's
  
  newser | USA Today | Jul 16, 08 5:45 PM CDT
  
  John McCain appears to be more reliant on funds bundled by elite supporters than Barack Obama, USA Today reports. More than half of the Republican candidate’s receipts, or more than $75 million, came from donations assembled by about 500 top supporters. In contrast, Obama’s top 500 pulled in about $50 million, about 17% of his total. More »
  
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  Barack Obama • John McCain • election 2008 • campaign fundraising • campaign finance • bundlers
- Obama Campaign Insular, Arrogant, Hill Dems Complain
  
  newser | Politico | Jul 15, 08 12:43 PM CDT
  
  Some Congressional Democrats say they're not feeling the love from Barack Obama's campaign, Politico reports, with the candidate inattentive to broader election strategy and his camp uncommunicative on the day-to-day message blitz. "They think they know what’s right and everyone else is wrong on everything,” one senior staffer said “They are kind of insufferable at this point.” More »
  
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  Barack Obama • Hillary Clinton • Congress • Democrats • campaign fundraising • Nancy Pelosi • Harry Reid • campaign • congressional Democrats • campaign staff
- Obama Raises $30M in June, Below Expecations
  
  newser | Wall Street Journal | Jul 11, 08 11:45 AM CDT
  
  Insiders say that Barack Obama raised about $30 million in June, which, by the campaign's own lofty standards, is a bit lackluster, reports the Wall Street Journal . Obama hopes to have raised $300 million by mid-October, with an additional $180 million for the DNC, bringing his record budget to nearly $500 million. McCain's camp, meanwhile, raised $22 million in June and plans to spend about $400 million when factoring in party and public funds. More »
  
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  Barack Obama • Hillary Clinton • campaign fundraising • DNC • lefties
- McCain's $22M June Is Best Month to Date
  
  newser | Associated Press | Jul 10, 08 5:13 PM CDT
  
  June was John McCain's best fundraising month yet, the AP reports, with the Republican bringing in $22 million; the perennially poorer candidate now has $27 million on hand. The Republican National Committee also had a good month, bringing in $26 million; the two camps together have $95 million in the bank. More »
  
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  Barack Obama • John McCain • campaign fundraising • political advertising • RNC
- Obama Yet to Win Clinton's Big Donors
  
  newser | Wall Street Journal | Jul 7, 08 10:19 AM CDT
  
  Big-money supporters of Hillary Clinton angry over her treatment during the Democratic primaries are slow to back presumptive nominee Barack Obama, the Wall Street Journal reports. A recent poll shows only 54% of Clinton voters plan to support Obama; recent analysis of donors who gave $1,000 or more to Clinton shows as many gave to Republican John McCain as to Obama since she left. More »
  
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  Barack Obama • Hillary Clinton • John McCain • campaign fundraising • campaign • HillRaisers
- McCain Pockets $70K From Swift Boaters
  
  newser | USA Today | Jul 1, 08 3:26 PM CDT
  
  John McCain has taken nearly $70,000 in donations from top funders of the notorious Swift Boat Vets for Truth, the group that assaulted John Kerry’s military record in 2004—prompting censure from McCain at the time as “dishonest and dishonorable.” A rep was coy in response, telling USA Today the backers supported the Republican's “agenda of reform, prosperity and peace.” More »
  
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  John McCain • campaign fundraising • John Kerry • Swift Boat Veterans for Truth • Wesley Clark • surrogates • slander
- Rising New Money Class Powers Obama
  
  newser | New York Times | Jul 1, 08 8:56 AM CDT
  
  Barack Obama likes to tout his small-donor network, as though a wave of inspired regular folk came out of the woodwork just for him. In reality, Obama is mining a money class that Democrats have been cultivating for years, writes David Brooks in the New York Times —"the rising class of information age analysts." More »
  
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  Barack Obama • Obama 2008 • campaign fundraising • campaign finance • Barack Obama supporters • political donors
June 2008
- Romney Takes Lead in VP Derby
  
  newser | Politico | Jun 30, 08 1:43 PM CDT
  
  Mitt Romney is today's top candidate to fill out John McCain’s ticket, Politico reports. The ex-Massachusetts governor has conservative cred, Michigan roots, fundraising chops—and not much chemistry with McCain. McCain hopes to wait out Barack Obama and see the Democratic ticket before announcing his choice, a play one staffer called a “bounce-mitigation strategy.” More »
  
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  Barack Obama • John McCain • Mitt Romney • campaign fundraising • Michigan • Rob Portman • John Thune
- McCain, Obama Raise $21M Each
  
  newser | MSNBC | Jun 21, 08 12:11 PM CDT
  
  John McCain nearly matched Barack Obama’s fundraising intake last month, granting the presumptive Republican presidential nominee “a level of parity that would have been unimaginable just a few months ago,” MSNBC says. McCain scored $21.5 million while Obama, whose fundraising slumped to its lowest levels of the year, pulled in $21.9 million. More »
  
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  Barack Obama • Hillary Clinton • John McCain • campaign fundraising • advertising
- Forget the Small-Donor Myth: Big Money Still Rules
  
  newser | Washington Post | Jun 20, 08 12:05 PM CDT
  
  Barack Obama often talks about how much money he’s raised from small donors, even describing it as “a parallel public financing system.” But while Obama has indeed raised record sums from little guys, big donors have kept pace , writes Jay Mandle of the Washington Post, predicting that when the dust settles, their 2008 role will have increased, rather than decreased. Through March, he notes, Obama's small-donor percentage was actually smaller than John Kerry's. More »
  
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  Barack Obama • John McCain • Obama 2008 • campaign fundraising • McCain 2008 • political donors • grassroots
- Dr. Obama and Mr. Hyde
  
  newser | New York Times | Jun 20, 08 5:20 AM CDT
  
  Barack Obama has two faces: there’s the "high-minded" liberal “Dr. Barack” and the politically calculating, win at-all-costs “Fast Eddie Obama,” writes David Brooks in the New York Times . The split personality clearly emerged in Obama’s announcement that he won’t accept public financing—a money-making move that leaves his ardent support of campaign-finance reform in the dust. More »
  
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  Barack Obama • campaign fundraising • campaign finance • public financing • political reform • political persona
- Short On Cash, Democrats Trim Convention
  
  newser | Associated Press | Jun 17, 08 11:30 AM CDT
  
  Democrats are scaling back their national convention plans in the face of fundraising shortfalls, the AP reports. The Denver host committee has just $29 million of the $40.6 million it promised to deliver by yesterday. The committee says it’s confident it’ll get the money before the convention begins Aug. 25, but organizers are shaving $3 million off events and vendor obligations. More »
  
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  campaign fundraising • Democratic National Convention • Democratic National Committee • Denver
- Giuliani Will Stump for GOP, for a Price
  
  newser | New York Times | Jun 14, 08 7:29 AM CDT
  
  Rudy Giuliani has offered to appear at fundraisers for cash-strapped Republican candidates but with strings attached, the New York Times reports. The former New York mayor wants a cut of the proceeds to go towards paying off his presidential campaign's $3.6-million debt. The debt includes a $500,000 personal loan from Giuliani, who is worth an estimated $30 million. More »
  
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  campaign fundraising • Republican candidates • Republican Party • fundraiser • Rudolph Giuliani • campaign debt
- Dems Work to Fuse Fundraising Machines
  
  newser | Wall Street Journal | Jun 7, 08 6:10 AM CDT
  
  The Obama and Clinton campaigns have been working to merge their fundraising machines as Clinton prepares her swan song today, the Wall Street Journal reports. Clinton made a call to her top 50 fundraisers, urging them to get behind Obama and promising a private meeting with the presumed nominee. The combined operation could create a juggernaut capable of dwarfing the contents of John McCain's offers. More »
  
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  Barack Obama • Hillary Clinton • campaign fundraising • campaign finance • Democratic Party • political donors
- Obama Wallet Strikes Fear in GOP Hearts
  
  newser | Politico | Jun 5, 08 1:56 PM CDT
  
  Republicans not used to worrying about money are sweating pennies, given John McCain's relatively inept fundraising in the face of an unprecedented Democratic war chest. Barack Obama, by conservative estimates, will have $300 million to McCain’s federal cap of $85 million for the general-election campaign, Politico reports—and with that kind of money, Obama could force McCain to play defense in traditionally red states. More »
  
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  Barack Obama • John McCain • Obama 2008 • campaign fundraising • McCain 2008 • campaign finance • political advertising
- Obama Willing to Help Bail Clinton Out of $20M Debt
  
  newser | Bloomberg | Jun 5, 08 12:42 PM CDT
  
  Barack Obama might ask his supporters to help Hillary Clinton pay off her campaign debt, Bloomberg reports. Clinton has accrued more than $20 million, $11.4 million of which she personally contributed. Under a campaign-finance law (co-sponsored by John McCain) she has until August's Democratic convention to raise money to settle the debt, after which she can only recoup $250,000. More »
  
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  Barack Obama • Hillary Clinton • campaign fundraising • campaign • debt • campaign funds
- Obama Moves to Clean Up DNC Money Machine
  
  newser | Politico | Jun 5, 08 12:04 PM CDT
  
  Barack Obama moved today to make his campaign more transparent, in keeping with his theme of bringing change to Washington. Obama will open all his fundraisers to the press, Politico reports. He’s also cleaning up his party’s fundraising efforts; starting today, the Democratic National Committee, like Obama’s campaign, won’t accept money from lobbyists or political action committees. More »
  
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  Barack Obama • John McCain • Obama 2008 • campaign fundraising • campaign finance • fundraiser • DNC • lobbyist • transparency
May 2008
- Democrats Can't Find Cash for Convention
  
  newser | New York Times | May 28, 08 10:41 AM CDT
  
  Democrats aren’t just wringing their hands over who they’ll nominate at their national convention—they’re also wondering who's going to pick up the tab. The Denver host committee has raised just $25 million of the $40.6 million it needs by June 16, the New York Times reports, which has Dems scrambling to find donors—or scale back plans. More »
  
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  campaign fundraising • Democratic National Convention • Denver • Republican National Convention
- McCain Can't Afford, Literally, to Ignore Bush
  
  newser | Bloomberg | May 27, 08 4:22 PM CDT
  
  Though he may be “absolutely radioactive” for Republican candidates (in the words of one GOP legislator), Bloomberg reports, President Bush is no easy hurdle for John McCain, who must build distance with the historically unpopular incumbent while using him to raise money and build conservative bona fides. Hence tonight's fundraiser in Phoenix, closed to the media despite both McCain and Bush being in attendance. More »
  
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  John McCain • George W. Bush • campaign fundraising • conservative base

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