That’s how much outside groups spent in the final week of the Nov. 6 election campaign, according to the Center for Responsive Politics. The big late spenders included American Crossroads ($23 million), a super-political action committee founded with help from...
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A man walks through the Boston Convention and Exhibition Center with balloons where Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney is scheduled to speak on Nov. 6, 2012.
Bloomberg by the Numbers: $97.7 Million
Freshmen: PACs First, Oaths Later
Even before she is sworn into office as Hawaii’s newest U.S. senator, Mazie Hirono has set up a leadership political action committee, Pineapple PAC, which allows her to take in donations beyond the contributions to her campaign committee. Hirono, now...
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Pipes carry recovered bitumen from oil sands, near Conklin, Alberta, Canada.
Rice’s Oil Holdings Flagged — Keystone Pipeline Rests at State
Written with Jim Efstathiou Jr. If the U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations, Susan Rice, ascends to secretary of state — no sure thing given the pre-emptive Republican strikes against her — she may have to sideline herself from the...
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A woman holds political literature during a Mitt Romney campaign event at Paramount Printing January 26, 2012 in Jacksonville, Florida.
$6 Billion Election: $700 Mln Increase
Anyone seeing more TV ads or getting more campaign literature in the mail than ever isn’t imagining it. Spending on the 2012 presidential and congressional races will exceed $6 billion, according to an estimate released today by the Center for...
Read more »Bloomberg by the Numbers: $5.8 Billion
That’s how much the nonpartisan Center for Responsive Politics projects will be spent on federal elections this year. That represents a 10 percent increase above the $5.29 billion spent on the 2008 election and a 40 percent increase above the...
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President Barack Obama greets troops after delivering remarks inside the 1st Aviation Support Battalion Hangar on Aur. 31, 2012 at Fort Bliss, Texas.
Military: Obama Tops Romney Almost 2-1 in Campaign Donations
President Barack Obama is taking in almost twice as much in campaign contributions from U.S. military personnel as Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney is collecting, despite Romney’s promises to boost defense spending and his campaign attacks over military cuts set...
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Santonio Holmes #10 of the New York Jets in action against the New England Patriots.
Romney’s Patriots: Obama’s Donors
In that interview that Mitt Romney had with Kelly Ripa and Michael Strahan today, the Republican presidential nominee acknowledged that his favorite football team is the New England Patriots, from his adopted home state of Massachusetts, where he served as governor....
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President Barack Obama participates in an interview with YouTube and Google from the Roosevelt Room of the White House.
Obama’s High-Tech Contributions Haven’t Offset Wall Street Drop-off
President Barack Obama’s effort to reach out to the high-tech community in order to make up for a drop-off in Wall Street campaign funding hasn’t really paid off. According to the latest analysis by the Center for Responsive Politics, a...
Read more »Larry Noble Wading Back Into a Tough Public Campaign Finance Fight
Larry Noble, the go-to guy in Washington on campaign finance issues, will become president and chief executive officer of Americans for Campaign Finance, a group that advocates for a notion that has lost its luster – public financing of elections. Noble is best...
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President Barack Obama and First Lady Michelle Obama look out at the Chicago skyline on June 15, 2012.
Obama’s $weet Home Town Chicago
A few weeks after Barack Obama was elected president, he told this reporter in his transition headquarters in a Chicago high-rise that he planned to return to his home town every six weeks or so. That turned out to be...
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