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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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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 Starts Off 2012 Strong on the First Coast

Bringing in $300,000 in Jacksonville, former Massachusetts governor leads the Republican pack in poll sunshinestatenews.com By: Kevin Derby While Jacksonville may have elected its first Democratic mayor in two decades earlier in the month, former Gov. Mitt Romney of Massachusetts is counting on the First Coast in his bid for the Republican presidential nomination. Romney [...]

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Mitt Romney Forms Exploratory Committee

By MAGGIE HABERMAN Mitt Romney made it official Monday, announcing he’s formed a presidential exploratory committee for his all-but-certain second-chance Republican campaign next year with a video that highlights the nation’s massive loss of jobs and says “President Obama’s policies have failed.” The move makes Romney the second semi-declared contender — Tim Pawlenty was the [...]

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Mitt Romney’s Path: Victory by Slog

By: Jonathan Martin Mitt Romney is sketching a path to the GOP nomination that looks nothing like the one blazed by Republicans before him. Romney’s plan, by necessity, more closely resembles the outline of the epic 2008 Democratic presidential primary than the GOP’s recent victory-by-early-knockout design. With glaring weaknesses in two of the traditional early [...]

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Mitt’s in the money

Romney started off this year with $1.4 million in the bank after he brought in $6.3 million in 2010, a strong and consistent year that keeps him in a top spot in the presidential money race. His numbers top even Palin, who will start the year with $1.3 million after raising about $4.5 million last [...]

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Six Top GOP Donors Call for New Leadership at RNC

By: Ben Smith POLITICO Six top Republican contributors – five of them past RNC finance chairmen – sent a letter today to members of the committee detailing the party’s financial problems and urging them to pick a new chair to replace Michael Steele. “In this past election cycle, record fundraising has been achieved by the [...]

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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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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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