Category Archives: Fundraising

TexMessage: Mitt Romney raises more in Texas than any other presidential candidate (including Barack Obama)

  Texans, do you know which presidential candidate you’ll support in 2012? Though Rick Perry is still on the sidelines, Texas donors sent more than $3 million to already-announced presidential candidates in the second quarter of 2011. The front-runner by a narrow margin is former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney with $1,376,220. Following closely behind is [...]

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Wagner starts campaign strong with half-million dollar haul.

“Congressional hopeful Ann Wagner has never run for public office before…The previous head of the Missouri GOP will file paperwork this week showing she raised more than a half-million dollars in her first two months of campaigning.” “While Election Day is still well over a year away, early fundraising success can go a long way [...]

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What The Left Won’t Be Speaking About This Week

On June 30, 2011 – President Obama appeared at a fundraiser held in the home of Comcast Corporation VP David L. Cohen. In January 2011, The Comcast Corporation conducted a $30 Billion takeover of NBC Universal. One of the more tiresome rants the left like to impose on Fox News, is of it being a [...]

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Obama Campaign Signals Fundraising Fail

by:  Keith Koffler The Obama campaign appears to be signaling that its fundraising totals for the second quarter of the year – the first since President Obama announced for reelection – will not be as robust as the campaign would like. In an email to campaign supporters today, President Obama unmistakably sought to downplay money. [...]

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Mitt Romney underestimated

By ALEXANDER BURNS Everyone just might have underestimated Mitt Romney. Serious competitors for the Republican presidential nomination have dropped out of the running. Romney has flexed his financial muscle with a $10 million-plus one-day fundraising haul. Most of all, his narrow, economy-focused message appears to be resonating amid growing alarm about the unemployment rate – [...]

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Possible primary rivals hit pause

  By:  GARRY RAYNO New Hampshire Union Leader Staff MANCHESTER – With the New Hampshire Presidential Primary only a year away, there’s been more political “shadow boxing” but less brawling than seen in 2008. That’s how some political observers see it. But they say it’s unfair to compare the two cycles because 2008 was an [...]

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Palin’s reality: Rivals in need of some TLC

The Concord Monitor By: The Editorial Staff In a sober examination of the latest trends in political campaign financing, the New York Times recently described how Mitt Romney is taking advantage of state-level political action committees in New Hampshire and beyond to help finance his expected run for president in 2012. Romney’s maneuvering was portrayed [...]

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Carnahan in midst of final no-bull tour, as competing robo-calls kick in

  By Jo Mannies, Beacon Political Reporter    Posted 1:42 am, Mon., 10.25.10   Missouri Secretary of State Robin Carnahan, the Democratic nominee for the U.S. Senate, may not be getting any high-profile national help for her come-from-behind quest. But she’s already hit the road for a final week traveling the state with what her [...]

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GOP mega-donors look toward 2012

POLITICO By MAGGIE HABERMAN & KENNETH P. VOGEL  As the 2010 campaign draws to its raucous close, the Republican Party’s biggest donors are slowly beginning to choose sides, with some still looking for a strong alternative to a populist conservative movement that makes them uneasy. The big New York, Texas, California and Florida donors who [...]

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Romney, top aides, to lunch with K St. today

Mitt Romney and two of his senior aides are holding a small lunch  in Washington today to brief GOP lobbyists and potential 2012 supporters on what the former governor and his PAC have done for candidates this cycle. “Spencer Zwick, Finance Director and Matt Rhoades, Executive Director will join the Governor at lunch to give an update [...]

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