Fundraising

Obama is flush, Clinton in debt

AP | JIM KUHNHENN | Posted 04.29.2008 | Politics


WASHINGTON — Hillary Rodham Clinton is struggling with debt, Barack Obama would like to turn his whopping financial advantage into primary victo...

FirstGiving: Putting Generosity Online

Mark Sutton | Posted 04.27.2008 | Living


Mark Sutton

Firstgiving CEO Mark Sutton shares a conversation with Marc Turgeon, a father who is using the Firstgiving Web site to raise funds for children and adults with autism, pervasive developmental disorder and related disorders.

Clinton Raises $3Million In 24 Hours

The Atlantic | Marc Ambinder | Posted 03.28.2008 | Politics


Sen. Hillary Clinton's campaign has raised more than $3M in less than 24 hours, reaching the goal she set after her three wins on Tuesday night. The ...

Donors Shift Support From Clinton To Obama

McClatchy | Greg Gordon | Posted 03.28.2008 | Politics


Last September, Gina Jorasch recruited friends to attend a California fundraiser for Hillary Clinton, mugged for a photo with the New York senator, wr...

McCain Raises $12 Million In February

CNN's Political Ticker | Posted 03.28.2008 | Politics


Likely Republican presidential nominee John McCain raised a little over $12 million in February, two campaign sources tell CNN's John King. That comp...

Six Questions For Saving Second Entrepreneurs Marisa Lee and Liana Guzman

Posted 02.20.2008 | Home


While raising funds and forming meaningful relationships with individual and corporate donors has certainly presented its own set of difficulties, finding people who share a passion for our mission, and whom we can trust to represent and effectively run our organization has been our greatest challenge.

Clinton Raised Million Dollars A Day For First Half Of February

USA Today | Mark Memmott | Posted 03.28.2008 | Politics


USA TODAY's Susan Page passes along a news nugget about Democrat Hillary Clinton's financial status from a conference call held by the Clinton camp. ...

Drawn-Out Primary Fight Will Weaken Crucial DNC Fundraising Efforts

Huffington Post | Thomas Edsall and Amanda Michel | Posted 03.28.2008 | Politics


DNC Executive Director Tom McMahon issued a response to this article, which you can find at the end of this post. The longer the primary fight betwe...

Allegations Of Underperformance Prompt Primary Challenges To Kucinich

James Freedman | Posted 03.28.2008 | Home


James Freedman

Congressman Dennis Kucinich (D-OH) was still running for president two weeks ago, despite polling in the single-digits and being excluded from debates...

Clinton Co-Chair Took Checks From Rezko

AP | MICHAEL R. BLOOD | Posted 03.28.2008 | Politics


LOS ANGELES — Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa, a national co-chair of Hillary Rodham Clinton's presidential campaign, banked at least $7,500 in polit...

Sam Stein

Democrats In Congress Raise Record Campaign Cash For 2008

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 03.28.2008 | Politics


With a preponderance of attention being paid to the 2008 presidential campaign, the Senate races being waged during this cycle have gone largely ignor...

Top Giuliani Staffers To Go Without Pay

Associated Press | LIZ SIDOTI | Posted 03.28.2008 | Politics


About a dozen senior campaign staffers for Rudy Giuliani are forgoing their January paychecks, aides said Friday, a sign of possible money trouble for...

Into The Lion's Den: Obama Planning High-Dollar NYC Fundraiser

The Atlantic | Marc Ambinder | Posted 03.28.2008 | Politics


Where will Barack Obama go the day after New Hampshire? Right into the heart of Sen. Clinton's financial heartland, New York City. The campaign has ...

Iowa Results Scrambles The Money Game

NY Times | LESLIE WAYNE | Posted 03.28.2008 | Politics


Victories by Senator Barack Obama and Mike Huckabee in Iowa have not only upset political calculations, they have also upset the money game and spurre...

Obama, Huckabee Wooing Their Rivals' Donors

Washington Post | Matthew Mosk | Posted 03.28.2008 | Politics


Shortly after securing first place in Iowa's Democratic caucuses and giving an impassioned victory speech, Sen. Barack Obama dialed up some of his riv...

Ron Paul's $20 Million 4th Quarter Rivals Hillary

Bloomberg | Kristin Jensen | Posted 03.28.2008 | Politics


Presidential candidate Ron Paul raised almost $20 million for his campaign in the last three months, potentially outpacing every one of his Republican...

Firms That Received Big Tax Breaks From Giuliani Have Donated Big To His Campaign

New York Daily News | BENJAMIN LESSER and GREG B. SMITH | Posted 03.28.2008 | Politics


Corporations that got multimillion-dollar sweetheart tax deals from former Mayor Rudy Giuliani have raised more than $1 million for his Senate and pre...

Congressional Dems Have Five Times The Cash of GOP

Politico | Josh Kraushaar | Posted 03.28.2008 | Politics


The Democratic Congressional campaign committees ended November with nearly five times as much cash-on-hand as their Republican counterparts. This mea...

Sam Stein

What Ron Paul Will Do With His Cash Haul

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 03.28.2008 | Politics


Congressman Ron Paul's presidential campaign has been defined by exceeded expectations. During debates, the Texas Republican has separated himself fro...

Democratic Candidates Outraising Republicans With Clergy And Religious Organizations

The Carpetbagger Report | Steve Benen | Posted 03.28.2008 | Politics


When it comes to campaign contributions, the 2008 presidential campaign keeps turning the conventional wisdom on its ear.... ...Thus far in the '08 c...

GOP Leader Boehner Admits Republican Fundraising "Sucks"

Politico | Jim VandeHei and John F. Harris | Posted 03.28.2008 | Politics


One of the best things that can be said of Rep. John A. Boehner's leadership is that the head of House Republicans is no Newt Gingrich, no Tom DeLay. ...

Is Karl Rove Fundraising For Rudy Giuliani?

New York Daily News | Elizabeth Benamin | Posted 03.28.2008 | Politics


A reader forwarded an invite he received from someone close to Rudy Giuliani to a $5,000-a-head fundraiser tomorrow morning at The Union League hosted...

Ron Paul Set To Outraise Other GOP Candidates

Politico | Jeanne Cummings | Posted 03.28.2008 | Politics


Ron Paul may not win his party's primary, but he is on track to capture another big title: top Republican fundraiser for the final quarter of the mone...

Fortune 500 CEOs Favor Dems: Gobs Of Green Go To Blue Candidates

Dan Treul | Posted 03.28.2008 | Home


Dan Treul

According to recent FEC reports, CEOs of the top 50 Fortune 500 companies donating individually to presidential campaigns are investing heavily in Democrats in '08.

Hillary Clinton's Fundraising From People Bill Pardoned

ABC News | JAKE TAPPER | Posted 03.28.2008 | Politics


Three recipients of controversial 11th-hour pardons issued by former President Bill Clinton in January 2001 have donated thousands of dollars to the p...