Campaign Money

Welcome to the Future: The "People's" Super PAC+ Looks Ahead

Beth Broderick | Posted 04.03.2012

Beth Broderick

We must look at new ways to build coalitions that can promote big D democratic values. We need to get past our myopic obsession with "likely voters" and start reaching out to the constituencies that vote occasionally or are registered, but do not participate.

Sam Stein

The Mitt Romney Campaign Fundraising Plan: Spend Money To Make Money

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 03.21.2012

WASHINGTON -- Sometime in early February, top aides to Mitt Romney realized they had a major problem on their hands. The presidential campaign was spe...

Dave Jamieson

Life-Saving Regulation Languishes As Campaign Money Flows

HuffingtonPost.com | Dave Jamieson | Posted 03.01.2012

WASHINGTON -- A federal rule meant to protect the lungs of workers has been caught in bureaucratic purgatory for more than a year now, frustrating pub...

Sam Stein

Mitt Romney Burn Rate Hurts Campaign In Critical Stretch

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 02.24.2012

If January's trend lines held through February, Mitt Romney's presidential campaign ran out of money two days ago. The former Massachusetts govern...

Bought Justice and the Supreme Court

Dylan Ratigan | Posted 01.04.2012

Dylan Ratigan

If belief in the integrity of the Supreme Court frays, the Court's power will fray as well. This is in no one's interest. We need a system of justice, but a system of justice that serves all of us.

Obama leads McCain in cash on hand

AP | JIM KUHNHENN | Posted 05.25.2011

WASHINGTON — Democratic Sen. Barack Obama, his presidential money apparatus slowed only slightly, raised more than $31 million in April, outdist...

Thomas B. Edsall

'08 Campaigns Flooded With Cash, Save GOP Frontrunner

HuffingtonPost.com | Thomas B. Edsall | Posted 05.25.2011

This was supposed to be the election year of big bucks. But John McCain, who has taken firm hold of frontrunner status, began 2008 with his campaign $...

Nico Pitney

FundRace: CNN's Bill Bennett Never Disclosed GOP Donations

HuffingtonPost.com | Nico Pitney | Posted 05.25.2011

Last December, conservative author and CNN election analyst William J. Bennett gave over two thousand dollars to Sen. John McCain's presidential campa...