Obama Winning Florida Money Race
Democrat Barack Obama outraised Republican John McCain by nearly $500,000 in Florida in June, validating his decision to rebuff limited public campaig...
Democrat Barack Obama outraised Republican John McCain by nearly $500,000 in Florida in June, validating his decision to rebuff limited public campaig...
Posted 07.21.2008 | Politics
The AP reports that Barack Obama reversed a two-month downward trend by raising more and spending less. He took in $52 million in June, more than twic...
HuffingtonPost.com | Rachel Weiner | Posted 07.14.2008 | Politics
Barack Obama's campaign is known for its fundraising success. But today, campaign manager David Plouffe sends out a message to supporters warning of R...
WSJ | Posted 07.11.2008 | Politics
Sen. John McCain's presidential campaign said Thursday that Republicans anticipate raising a combined $400 million war chest for the general election ...
WSJ | Posted 07.09.2008 | Politics
A pile of cash is flowing the Democrats' way Wednesday night in New York City. Roughly 100 deep-pocketed donors are expected to attend a $33,100-a-pla...
HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 07.08.2008 | Politics
A comically absurd Barack Obama smear email is making the rounds right now involving a fabricated column by famed New York Times columnist Maureen Dow...
AP | Posted 07.05.2008 | Politics
BUTTE, Mont. — Now that they're allies, Democrats Barack Obama and Hillary Rodham Clinton will help each other raise money in a series of fundra...
Jeffrey Jena | Posted 06.26.2008 | Politics
Here is my advice for this and every other boy who feels bullied for being excluded on the playground: Grow a set, toughen up, work on your game or learn to play clarinet and be ready for band camp in high school.
Talking Points Memo | Posted 06.25.2008 | Politics
Barack Obama has begun privately calling Hillary's top fundraisers and making personal appeals for their support, and in some cases is getting some cr...
John K. Wilson | Posted 06.24.2008 | Home
It was McCain who never tried to meet Obama on campaign finance. As the story has unfolded, the press consistently fails to mention that McCain, not Obama, violated the campaign finance laws.
Chicago Sun Times | Posted 06.23.2008 | Politics
WASHINGTON--Superinvestor Warren Buffett, the chairman and CEO of Berkshire Hathaway--who with his daughter Susan early on spotted presumptive Democra...
Matthew Dowd | Posted 06.23.2008 | Politics
Obama's brand involves a new kind of politics, something that doesn't involve political expediency -- which is why it was a blunder to flip flop on public campaign finance for the general election.
Bob Ostertag | Posted 06.20.2008 | Politics
Obama is raising more money via the Internet in small donations than any candidate in history. Hooray! But it is just as true that he is raising more money from fat cat donations than any candidate in history.
HuffingtonPost.com | Thomas B. Edsall | Posted 06.20.2008 | Politics
While Barack Obama remains the solid favorite on November 4, it remains unclear whether he will, as many of his supporters suggest, transform American...
ABC News | Posted 06.19.2008 | Politics
Sen. Barack Obama's decision to forgo public financing for his presidential campaign clears the way for him to outspend Sen. John McCain by 3-to-1 or ...
Daniel Nichanian | Posted 06.19.2008 | Home
With this bold move, Obama is going straight past McCain to the source of real GOP election funding, the RNC, which will be spending massively to defeat the Democratic nominee in the fall.
Huffington Post | Posted 06.09.2008 | Politics
Now that the Obama campaign has turned its focus towards the general election against John McCain, leading Democratic fundraisers are predicting that ...
HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 06.05.2008 | Politics
Sixteen months after he launched his campaign for the White House, Sen. Barack Obama may, just now, be entering his campaign's most perilous stage. Fa...
Politico | Kenneth Vogel | Posted 05.26.2008 | Politics
A milestone of sorts was reached earlier this year, when Barack Obama filed an electronic fundraising report so large it could not be processed by pop...
HuffingtonPost.com | Will Thomas | Posted 05.23.2008 | Politics
Barack Obama has been hailed this election season for, among other things, his impressive fundraising apparatus. But while the Democratic frontrunner'...
The Huffington Post | Posted 05.20.2008 | Politics
ABC News reports: Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., hauled in $31.9 million in April (including $600,000 for the general election) to continue his battle fo...
Politico | Ben Smith | Posted 05.13.2008 | Politics
Senator Barack Obama's campaign is steering the candidate's wealthy supporters away from independent Democratic groups, calling into question what had...
HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 05.08.2008 | Politics
During a private fundraiser last month, Sen. Barack Obama said he was "considering" voluntarily restricting the amount of money he could raise in a ge...
LA Times | Dan Morain | Posted 05.02.2008 | Politics
Campaign donors who previously backed also-ran Democratic candidates have adopted Sen. Barack Obama as their second choice, preferring Obama by a rati...
LA Times | Chuck Neubauer and Tom Hamburger | Posted 04.27.2008 | Politics
After an unsuccessful campaign for Congress in 2000, Illinois state Sen. Barack Obama faced serious financial pressure: numerous debts, limited cash a...
As Barack Obama began his trip to the Middle East and Europe,...
An ABC-TV outlet in Houston, and now the Houston Chronicle,...
The McCain campaign implied on Wednesday that Barack Obama's commitment...
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The New York Times has rejected an op-ed penned by Senator John McCain in response...
BARCELONA, Spain — Christian Bale swept into Barcelona on Wednesday night to attend a...
When Walk Score recently released their ranking of the ten most walkable U.S. cities there was no doubt that folks in places...
Here we go again. Oil prices tumbling "in the steepest four...
According to Psychology Today and referencing the American Journal of Psychiatry,...
Miami Herald | Posted 07.22.2008 | Politics