Gregory Giroux
analyzes elections, financing of congressional and presidential elections, political advertising and demographics in Bloomberg's Washington Bureau.
analyzes elections, financing of congressional and presidential elections, political advertising and demographics in Bloomberg's Washington Bureau.
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A real estate agent organizes pamphlets for an open house tour in Redondo Beach, California.
That’s how much home prices rose in the 12 months through March, according to the S&P/Case-Shiller index. It’s the biggest 12-month jump in property values since April 2006, when the index advanced 11.2 percent over the previous year. The surging...
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Wanda Doerksen squeegees the patio doors of her home as she prepares for an open house in Eugene, Oregon.
That’s the Bloomberg Consumer Comfort Index among homeowners, the highest reading in more than five years. The index was minus 44.7 among renters. It was minus 29.4 for all respondents in the week ended May 19, compared to minus 30.2...
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Protestors against the use of drone strikes by the U.S. military hold a model of a drone aircraft during the "March On Wall Street South" rally in Charlotte, North Carolina, ahead of the Democratic National Convention, on September 2, 2012.
That’s how many American citizens have been killed by U.S. drone strikes since 2009. Attorney General Eric Holder made the disclosure yesterday in a letter to Sen. Pat Leahy, a Vermont Democrat who leads the Senate Judiciary Committee. Drones are...
Read more »Senate Republicans’ campaign arm outraised its Democratic counterpart last month for this first time this year, aided by donors including Google Inc. chairman Eric Schmidt. Schmidt gave $32,300 to the National Republican Senatorial Committee in April, helping it outraise the Democratic Senatorial...
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Sen. Jay Rockefeller, D-W. Va., arrives in the Senate Reception Room before the 'Vote-A-Rama' on amendments to the budget resolution on March 22, 2013.
Sen. Jay Rockefeller isn’t seeking re-election next year, though the wealthy West Virginia Democrat is still using some of his personal fortune to help his party’s prospects in the midterm election. Rockefeller donated the maximum $32,400 to the Democratic Senatorial...
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Sheldon Adelson, chairman and chief executive officer of Las Vegas Sands Corp. and chairman of Sands China Ltd., in Macau, China.
A political donation of $32,400 may seem like couch change for Sheldon Adelson, the casino executive with a $27.9 billion net worth who gave tens of millions of dollars to Republicans during the 2012 election. Yet $32,400 is the maximum...
Read more »That’s how much Apple Inc. is holding in overseas accounts, according to a report from congressional investigators. The Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations released the report ahead of a hearing today about multinational companies that shift profits to countries with...
Read more »Seven years ago, Steve Laffey was a Republican mayor in Rhode Island who clashed with party leaders in a losing bid for the U.S. Senate. Now a rancher in Fort Collins, Colorado, Laffey has the political bug again: He’s running...
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Delegates stand at the Republican National Convention (RNC) in Tampa, Florida, on Aug. 30, 2012.
The Republican organization working to secure state offices for the party will focus on recruiting Hispanic and female candidates in the 2014 election cycle, when it plans to raise $50 million. The Republican State Leadership Committee is “on track” to...
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Jeffrey Zients, acting director of the Office of Management and Budget (OMB), speaks during a news conference on April 10, 2013.
That’s how much President Barack Obama’s budget proposal would trim federal budget deficits over the next decade, according to the Congressional Budget Office. Obama’s budget would produce deficits of $5.2 trillion between fiscal 2014 and fiscal 2023, compared with $6.3...
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