Obama Donors

Wealthy Super PACs Attract Small-Dollar Donors

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 05.23.2012

WASHINGTON -- In the age of super PACs, campaign entities that can raise and spend unlimited sums of money, gone are the days when a broad fundraising...

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Romney Fails To Turn Voter Contact Into Donor Cash

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 04.23.2012

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WASHINGTON -- In many of the states in which he waged a vigorous primary campaign, Mitt Romney has failed to convert that direct contact with voters i...

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Obama Invites Wealthy Donors To Dinner For Big Money

AP | Posted 02.28.2012

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WASHINGTON -- President Barack Obama is meeting with about 25 wealthy donors who each contributed $35,800 to his re-election effort. The event is at ...

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Obama's Reluctant Reversal On Super PACs Gives Base Little Pause

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 02.07.2012

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WASHINGTON -- President Barack Obama's decision to drop his opposition to super PACs and encourage donors to write checks to these well-financed entit...

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Russ Feingold: Obama Super PAC Reversal Will Lead To 'A Legalized Abramoff System'

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 02.07.2012

WASHINGTON -- Former Sen. Russ Feingold (D-Wis.) ripped into both President Barack Obama and his re-election team on Tuesday morning for backing off i...

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Obama Reverses Super PAC Opposition To 'Counter The Weight' Of GOP Money

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 02.07.2012

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WASHINGTON -- President Barack Obama's campaign is reconfiguring its approach to powerful super PACs, worried the president's re-election prospects co...

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Obama Holds Interesting Advantage Over Possible GOP Opponent

Posted 02.05.2012

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By Alina Selyukh and Alexander Cohen WASHINGTON--It does not guarantee him re-election in November, but it is an advantage President Barack Oba...

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Once Some Of Obama's Most Loyal 2008 Backers Now 'Disappointed,' 'Bewildered'

The New York Times | Nicholas Confessore ONFESSORE | Posted 11.25.2011

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They were once among President Obama’s most loyal supporters and a potent symbol of his political brand: voters of moderate means who dug deep for t...

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Obama Urges Campaign Donors To Regain 2008 Energy

AP | By BETH FOUHY and KEN THOMAS | Posted 08.31.2011

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PHILADEPHIA -- Even as President Barack Obama's re-election effort is powering toward an impressive early fundraising haul, campaign officials are try...

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Second Obama Donor In Two Years Headed To Luxembourg

HuffingtonPost.com | Christina Wilkie | Posted 08.29.2011

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WASHINGTON -- President Obama has announced the nomination of the second U.S. ambassador to Luxembourg in as many years: Florida real estate developer...

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Progressive Group To Supporters: Withhold Donations To Obama If He Cuts Medicare, Medicaid

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 06.12.2011

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WASHINGTON -- One of the thorniest progressive groups in the side of the Obama administration is launching a new campaign against the president on Tue...

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Major Dem Donors Plan To Withhold Funds Over Obama Tax-Cut Deal

Los Angeles Times | Matea Gold | Posted 05.25.2011

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President Obama's advisors are confident that liberals dismayed by his agreement to extend tax breaks for the wealthy will forgive him by the time the...

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Democratic Operatives On Creating Outside Group: 'Something Big Needs To Be Done'

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 05.25.2011

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WASHINGTON -- Two major developments in Democratic efforts to build an outside party apparatus took place this past Monday, as high-ranking officials ...

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Democratic Donors Set To Go Rogue On Obama

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 05.25.2011

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WASHINGTON -- In the wake of an electoral drubbing and fearing another one in two years, some deep-pocketed Democratic donors have decided to essentia...

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Obama Ramps Up Fundraising Efforts Ahead Of Midterm Elections

The Huffington Post | Elyse Siegel | Posted 05.25.2011

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President Obama is raising campaign cash at a "ferocious" pace, according to a report from the Los Angeles Times on Wednesday. While the president's ...

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Obama Gives Donors Special Access: Washington Times

AP | Posted 05.25.2011

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WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama has rewarded top Democratic donors with perks ranging from holiday visits to the White House to policy brief...

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Obama Donors Grumble At Their Lack Of Perks

The Washington Post | MIchael D. Shear and Dan Eggen | Posted 05.25.2011

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Some of President Obama's wealthiest supporters are becoming a bit whiny, and it has nothing to do with policy. Tickets for tours of the presidential...

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Zelizer's Corner: Kim Phillips-Fein, Invisible Hands: The Making of the Conservative Movement From the New Deal to Reagan

Julian E. Zelizer | Posted 05.25.2011

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This book traces a network of wealthy business leaders who, starting in the 40s and on through the 80s, poured their funds and energy into making conservatism a viable and powerful political force.

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Obama To Maintain Practice Of Naming Donors To Ambassador Posts

Bloomberg | Posted 05.25.2011

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President-elect Barack Obama will uphold at least one of Washington's old ways: the appointment of campaign donors to plum ambassadorships. "There pr...

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Study: Obama's Small Donor Base Image A Myth

Los Angeles Times | Andrew Malcolm | Posted 05.25.2011

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Everybody knows how President-elect Barack Obama's amazing campaign money machine was dominated by several million regular folks sending in hard-earne...

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Your Very Best Friend, Barack

Victoria Lautman | Posted 05.25.2011

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I'm grateful to Obama supporters who didn't trumpet their insiderness and perks to everyone within earshot. Gratitude is one thing. Tolerating one-upsmanship another.

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Shock: Obama Will Appoint Qualified Officials, Not Big Donors, To Key Ambassadorships

Washington Post | Posted 05.25.2011

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You'd think everyone on the Obama team would be celebrating today. But you'd be wrong. There is major agita among some key elements of President-elec...

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Obama Accepting Untraceable Credit Card Donations

Washington Post | Posted 05.25.2011

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Sen. Barack Obama's presidential campaign is allowing donors to use largely untraceable prepaid credit cards that could potentially be used to evade l...

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Negative Obama Ad Mimics Outside Group's Effort

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 05.25.2011

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A new Obama campaign ad hammering John McCain on the economy bears a striking resemblance to an ad produced several months ago by an outside Democrati...

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Obama Reaches 2 Million Donors

The Huffington Post | Posted 05.25.2011

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Barack Obama's campaign has been encouraging supporters to "make history" by helping the campaign pass the 2,000,000 donor mark. Today they reached th...

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