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Paul Blumenthal

The Surprising Source Behind The RNC's Fundraising Success

HuffingtonPost.com | Paul Blumenthal | Posted 04.24.2013 | Politics

WASHINGTON -- Neither the Republican National Committee nor the Democratic National Committee had a phenomenal first quarter of fundraising in 2013. B...

Al Franken Raises Big Money For Reelection

The Huffington Post | Paul Blumenthal | Posted 04.11.2013 | Politics

Sen. Al Franken (D-Minn.) raised $1.98 million in the first three months of 2013 for his first reelection campaign next year, according to ...

Paul Blumenthal

State Advances Campaign Finance Reform

HuffingtonPost.com | Paul Blumenthal | Posted 04.02.2013 | Politics

WASHINGTON -- After letting its public campaign financing system become obsolete, Hawaii is finally moving forward with a bill to bring the 30-year-ol...

Paul Blumenthal

Election Reformers See Big Chance In Key State

HuffingtonPost.com | Paul Blumenthal | Posted 04.01.2013 | Politics

A coalition of groups calling for public financing of candidates in New York is launching an advertising and grassroots push on Monday to raise awaren...

Paul Blumenthal

Dems Aim For One Unified Bill On Campaign Finance

HuffingtonPost.com | Paul Blumenthal | Posted 01.16.2013 | Politics

WASHINGTON -- In an effort to show a unified front, five members of a campaign finance reform task force organized by House Democrats reintroduced thr...

Paul Blumenthal

Is New Congress Ready For Campaign Finance Reform?

HuffingtonPost.com | Paul Blumenthal | Posted 01.10.2013 | Politics

WASHINGTON -- The 2012 election was the most expensive in history, with a pricetag as high as $6 billion. This staggering amount brought with it many ...

Paul Blumenthal

Obama Lapping Romney With Key Donor Group

HuffingtonPost.com | Paul Blumenthal | Posted 09.27.2012 | Politics

WASHINGTON -- The new campaign finance playing field that was created when Barack Obama refused public funds for his general election campaign in 2008...

The Small Donor Revolution: Empowering Citizens to Combat Influence-Money in Politics

Fred Wertheimer | Posted 11.06.2012 | Politics
Fred Wertheimer

2012-08-28-scblog2.png While we cannot limit independent spending by outside groups, we can dramatically increase the role and importance of small donors in our elections and revolutionize the way campaigns are financed. Here's how.

$1 Million for Elizabeth Warren

The Huffington Post | Paul Blumenthal | Posted 09.05.2012 | Politics

The Progressive Change Campaign Committee (PCCC) announced on Wednesday that it has raised $1 million through grassroots donations for the Massachuset...

Paul Blumenthal

Obama Falls Behind In Money Race

HuffingtonPost.com | Paul Blumenthal | Posted 08.21.2012 | Politics

WASHINGTON -- A month of torrential fundraising by Mitt Romney and big spending by President Barack Obama has upended the state of the campaign money ...

Paul Blumenthal

How Paul Ryan Became A Fundraising Star

HuffingtonPost.com | Paul Blumenthal | Posted 08.17.2012 | Politics

WASHINGTON -- On April 15, 2009, Rep. Paul Ryan took to a stage in Madison, Wis., to address a crowd of angry conservative activists at one of the ver...

The Small Donor Revolution Will Not Be Televised

Jonathan Backer | Posted 10.09.2012 | Politics
Jonathan Backer

The real small donor revolution in New York City can spread to federal elections as well if Congress enacts a small donor matching fund program. But its impact will not be felt in the form of more television advertisements funded by money from small donors.

Obama Campaign Fundraises With Basketball Stars Michael Jordan, Carmelo Anthony

The Huffington Post | Sabrina Siddiqui | Posted 08.10.2012 | Politics

The Obama campaign is bringing in NBA heavyweights Michael Jordan, Patrick Ewing, Alonzo Mourning and Carmelo Anthony to boost the president's fundrai...

Paul Blumenthal

June Was Mitt Romney's Best Month Yet

HuffingtonPost.com | Paul Blumenthal | Posted 07.20.2012 | Politics

WASHINGTON -- A furious month of non-stop fundraising paid of for Mitt Romney as his presidential campaign reported a $33 million haul in June, accord...

Paul Blumenthal

Obama vs. Romney: Who Really Won Fundraising Fight After Health Care Ruling?

HuffingtonPost.com | Paul Blumenthal | Posted 06.29.2012 | Politics

WASHINGTON -- In the 24 hours since the Supreme Court handed down a 5-4 decision upholding the majority of the landmark Affordable Care Act, including...

Sam Stein

Wealthy Super PACs Attract Small-Dollar Donors

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 05.23.2012 | Politics

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...

Paul Blumenthal

Congressman's Experiment Aims To Reverse Role Of Big Money

HuffingtonPost.com | Paul Blumenthal | Posted 05.21.2012 | Politics

WASHINGTON -- In the age of super PACs and K Street fundraisers, the hunt for grassroots donors, those giving small sums, has become less and less imp...

Paul Blumenthal

Republicans Fall Flat In Key Fundraising Measure

HuffingtonPost.com | Paul Blumenthal | Posted 05.08.2012 | Politics

WASHINGTON -- Rep. Allen West (R-Fla.) knows how to rile with rhetoric. He has called the entire Congressional Progressive Caucus "members of the ...

Romney Campaign Spinning Numbers

Now with Alex | Joshua Chaffee | Posted 04.26.2012 | Politics

A Mitt Romney campaign announcement declaring its latest fundraising figures raised a few eyebrows on our team -- not because of the amount of money t...

Paul Blumenthal

Obama Getting More Small Donors Then Ever

HuffingtonPost.com | Paul Blumenthal | Posted 02.14.2012 | Politics

WASHINGTON -- The 2012 election is shaping up as the election of big money power. Super PACs, accepting unlimited contributions from billionaires,...

In an Internet Age, All Politics is Local -- But All Fundraising is National

Colin Delany | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics
Colin Delany

Originally published on Epolitics.com In Saturday's AMP Summit panel discussion on effective online campaigning, fellow online politics old-timer Chri...

Sarah Palin Fundraising Driven By Small Donors

Five Thirty Eight | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics

Sarah Palin's political action committee -- SarahPAC -- raised $733,000 in the first half of the year and is set to push past $1 million in the wake o...

Wealthy Donors Dominated 2008 Primary Cycle

Nancy Watzman | Posted 05.25.2011 | Home
Nancy Watzman

Big donors--those giving $1,000 or more--still account for the bulk of money collected by frontrunner presidential candidates, according to an analysi...