That’s the advantage in fundraising for Mitt Romney and the Republican Party over President Barack Obama and the Democratic Party in May, according to figures announced by the campaigns last week. Romney, the Republican National Committee and a Romney Victory...
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President Barack Obama at a campaign fundraiser sponsored in Beverly Hills.
Magic Number of the Day: $17 million
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Gabrielle Giffords with Rob Barber at the Pima County Democrat HQ in Tucson two days before Barber squares off against J. Kelly to determine who will fill the seat vacated by Giffords in January.
Arizona Special Election Tops Tuesday Voting
The congressional primary season is in full swing, continuing today with intraparty voting in six states. Maine, Nevada, Virginia, South Carolina and North Dakota have primaries and Arkansas is holding runoff elections three weeks after its first-round primaries. The biggest...
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A supporter of Rep. Gabrielle Giffords before a debate at the University of Arizona in Tucson on Oct. 18, 2010.
Candidates, Parties Step Up Ad Activity in Giffords’s Arizona District
The television ad wars are intensifying in a special U.S. House election to fill the Arizona seat formerly held by Democrat Gabrielle Giffords. Democrat Ron Barber, Republican Jesse Kelly and the two U.S. House campaign committees all aired new ads...
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Rep Gabrielle Giffords tours the Gabrielle Giffords Family Assistance Center with Community Food Bank CEO Bill Carnegie on Jan. 23, 2012, in Tucson.
Could Gabrielle Giffords’s Seat Go Republican?
Arizona Republican voters will select a nominee today to run for Gabrielle Giffords’s old seat. A special election on June 12th will determine who will complete Giffords’s unexpired term in the Tucson-area congressional district. Giffords resigned in January to concentrate on her...
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Texas Gov. Rick Perry addresses the the annual Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) February 9, 2012 in Washington, DC.
Perry Still Gets Some Votes
Texas Governor Rick Perry, who bailed out of the Republican presidential competition in January, got more votes this week in Michigan and Arizona than he did in New Hampshire’s primary, where he was actually trying to win. Perry, who put his...
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