Category Archives: Fundraising

Barack Obama, Mitt Romney both topped $1 billion in 2012

  By KENNETH P. VOGEL, DAVE LEVINTHAL and TARINI PARTI POLITICO Obama: $1.123 billion vs. Romney: $1.019 billion. That’s the final fundraising tally in the most expensive presidential election ever, according to reports filed Thursday with the Federal Election Commission by the rival campaigns and party committees. And that doesn’t include an explosion of late [...]

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Mitt Romney defends video: Not ‘elegantly stated’

  By GINGER GIBSON and ANNA PALMER     POLITICO COSTA MESA, Calif. — Mitt Romney held a hastily arranged press conference here to engage in damage control hours after a video surfaced that showed him at a private May fundraiser describing 47 percent of the country as “dependent upon the government.” The GOP nominee for president [...]

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Romney’s committees began outraising Obama’s starting in May

By KENNETH P. VOGEL Mitt Romney raised $100 million in August, his campaign told bundlers last week in Tampa. Romney campaign finance director Spencer Zwick revealed the tally during an event with top fundraisers on the sidelines of the Republican National Convention, according to a source who was present. The Romney campaign did not respond [...]

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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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