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 McCain Ad Angers Hollywood 

"Celebrity" ad offends linguists, stars, Paris Hilton's parents

Aug 1, 08 10:05 AM CDT
(Newser) - Tinseltown is ticked over John McCain’s recent ad likening Barack Obama to Britney Spears—and to Paris Hilton, whose parents have donated the maximum to the senator's campaign. The problem isn't just looking ungrateful, reports the LA Times, but the fine distinction between a mere “celebrity” and a... More »

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John McCain • Hollywood • Paris Hilton • Los Angeles • celebrity • campaign fundraising • Harrison Ford • campaign advertising • Martin Eisenstadt • Norman Lear • Warren Beatty

Comically Simple Ploy Pays Big for Kansas Candidate

Cartoon brings flood of donation, but Dem's bid for state legislature hardly done deal

Jul 28, 08 5:20 PM CDT
(Newser) - A cash-strapped candidate for the Kansas legislature has turned around his fortunes in the flash of a few thousand mouse-clicks: Before circulating sassy online cartoon strips, Sean Tevis had $1,525 in his campaign coffers; in less than two weeks, he’s raised nearly $100,000 more. The episode is... More »

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social networking • Internet • Kansas • campaign fundraising • social conservatives • personal privacy • comic strips • Sean Tevis

Virginia Is Not for Gilmore Lovers

Despite GOP strength, broke ex-gov's Senate bid a 'laughingstock'

Jul 24, 08 12:28 PM CDT
(Newser) - Jim Gilmore may be a former governor, RNC chair, and presidential candidate running for Senate in a historically red state, but the Virginian has become Campaign 2008’s “laughingstock,” Politico reports. Virginia is regularly ranked first among Senate seats likely to flip this November, as Gilmore trails hugely... More »

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Karl Rove • RNC • Senate • Virginia • campaign fundraising • Mark Warner • Jim Gilmore

Obama Raises $25M
in a Single Day

Candidates' financial strategies illustrate different approaches

Jul 21, 08 11:47 AM CDT
(Newser) - 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... More »

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Barack Obama • John McCain • RNC • Obama 2008 • campaign fundraising • McCain 2008

McCain's Elite Fundraisers Trump Obama's

But that could change when Barack matches his rival's disclosures

Jul 16, 08 5:45 PM CDT
(Newser) - 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... More »

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Barack Obama • John McCain • campaign finance • campaign fundraising • bundlers • Election 2008

Obama Campaign Insular, Arrogant, Hill Dems Complain

Lawmakers cite lack of coordination with presidential candidate

Jul 15, 08 12:43 PM CDT
(Newser) - 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... More »

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Nancy Pelosi • Barack Obama • Hillary Clinton • Congress • Democrats • Harry Reid • campaign fundraising • congressional Democrats • campaign • campaign staff

OPINION

Obama Raises $30M in June, Below Expecations

It's still more than McCain's $22M, but far below record months

Jul 11, 08 11:45 AM CDT
(Newser) - 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... More »

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Barack Obama • Hillary Clinton • lefties • campaign fundraising • DNC

McCain's $22M June Is
Best Month to Date

Mac, RNC have $95M on hand

Jul 10, 08 5:13 PM CDT
(Newser) - 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... More »

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Barack Obama • John McCain • RNC • campaign fundraising • political advertising

ANALYSIS

 Obama Yet to Win
 Clinton's Big Donors 

'Hillraisers' slow to line up behind Dems' candidate—and McCain's in pursuit, too

Jul 7, 08 10:19 AM CDT
(Newser) - 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... More »

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Barack Obama • Hillary Clinton • John McCain • campaign fundraising • campaign • HillRaisers

McCain Pockets $70K From
Swift Boaters

Against '04 ads, he's now using veteran who appeared in them

Jul 1, 08 3:26 PM CDT
(Newser) - 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,... More »

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John McCain • John Kerry • Wesley Clark • slander • campaign fundraising • surrogates • Swift Boat Veterans for Truth • Bud Day

Opinion

Rising New
Money Class Powers Obama

Brooks cites recent shift to 'information
age analysts'

Jul 1, 08 8:56 AM CDT
(Newser) - 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... More »

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Barack Obama • campaign finance • Obama 2008 • campaign fundraising • Barack Obama supporters • political donors

 Romney Takes Lead
 in VP Derby 

Insiders excited about Romney's fundraising talents, conservative cred

Jun 30, 08 1:43 PM CDT
(Newser) - 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... More »

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Mitt Romney • Barack Obama • John McCain • Michigan • Rob Portman • campaign fundraising • John Thune

McCain, Obama Raise $21M Each

Dem suffers slowest fundraising month of the year, campaigns with Clinton next week

Jun 21, 08 12:11 PM CDT
(Newser) - 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... More »

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Barack Obama • Hillary Clinton • John McCain • advertising • campaign fundraising

 Forget the Small-Donor Myth: Big Money Still Rules

Big money men still Obama and McCain's bread and butter

Jun 20, 08 12:05 PM CDT
(Newser) - 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 ... More »

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Barack Obama • John McCain • Obama 2008 • grassroots • campaign fundraising • McCain 2008 • political donors

opinion

 Dr. Obama and Mr. Hyde 

'High-minded' candidate is also cutthroat political animal

Jun 20, 08 5:20 AM CDT
(Newser) - 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... More »

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Barack Obama • campaign finance • political reform • political persona • campaign fundraising • public financing

Short On Cash, Democrats Trim Convention

Long primary slows Denver fundraising; having nominee helps

Jun 17, 08 11:30 AM CDT
(Newser) - 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... More »

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Denver • Democratic National Convention • Democratic National Committee • campaign fundraising

Giuliani Will Stump for GOP, for a Price

Rudy wants a cut of fundraising proceeds to pay off campaign debt

Jun 14, 08 7:29 AM CDT
(Newser) - 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... More »

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Rudy Giuliani • Republican Party • fundraiser • campaign fundraising • Republican candidate • campaign debt

Dems Work to Fuse Fundraising Machines

Two campaigns set to become one as Clinton bows out

Jun 7, 08 6:10 AM CDT
(Newser) - 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... More »

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Barack Obama • Hillary Clinton • campaign finance • campaign fundraising • Democratic Party • political donors

 Obama Wallet
 Strikes Fear
 in GOP Hearts 

He's already shown he knows how to spend

Jun 5, 08 1:56 PM CDT
(Newser) - 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... More »

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Barack Obama • John McCain • campaign finance • Obama 2008 • campaign fundraising • political advertising • McCain 2008

Obama Willing to Help Bail Clinton Out of $20M Debt

Peace offering from victorious Dem could help come November, too

Jun 5, 08 12:42 PM CDT
(Newser) - 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... More »

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Barack Obama • Hillary Clinton • debt • campaign funds • campaign fundraising • campaign

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