With a quartet of California fundraisers, President Barack Obama will test his ability to replenish his party’s campaign accounts without the threat of his defeat to motivate Democratic donors. Obama leaves Washington today for a Western trip that is four...
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President Barack Obama delivers remarks from the wharf near the PortMiami tunnel project in Miami, Florida on March 29, 2013.
Obama’s Post-Election Fundraising: Replenishing a Party
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A billboard on Interstate 94 east of downtown St. Paul, Minn. makes an appeal to soldiers and military veterans to support a proposed voter ID amendment on the ballot in Minnesota.
Citizens United Foes, Civil Rights Pros: Common Ground on Voter ID
Advocates trying to overturn the Supreme Court’s Citizens United decision or otherwise enact new limits on campaign spending are finding a common cause with civil rights groups fighting Republican efforts to enact voter-identification laws. They say the issues are related....
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A private jet in New York.
Have Super-PAC, Will Travel
There was that night at the Four Seasons in Seattle. And a couple of check-ins at the W Hotel in San Francisco. There were dozens of flights on United — even a chartered plane. Super-political action committees spent more than...
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The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) in Washington.
IRS: Nonprofit Regulation no Priority
Coming off an election season in which groups that keep their donors hidden spent more than $300 million on political activity, the Internal Revenue Service has left the question of nonprofit regulation off its initial Priority Guidance Plan. This is...
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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...
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Florida Governor Rick Scott greets Mitt Romney during a rally at Flagler College, in St. Augustine, Florida, on August 13, 2012.
Medicare Fraud: Obama-Backing Super-PAC Ties Scott, Romney
Florida Gov. Rick Scott, who won election despite a business record including a company engaged in Medicare fraud, is not the most popular politician. The super-PAC backing President Barack Obama is counting on both that and the Medicare voucher plan...
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Mitt Romney and President Barack Obama following a presidential debate at the University of Denver in Colorado.
Obama v Romney: $1 Billion Parity
$975.9 million. That’s how much money that President Barack Obama, the Democratic National Committee and the allied super-political action committee Priorities USA Action together have raised since the beginning of 2011 through Oct. 17. It’s the same sum raised by...
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Priorities’ Bill Burton says the ad, “Stage,” is back by popular demand.
`The Stage’ is Set in Ohio: Priorities
Priorities USA Action, the super-PAC backing President Barack Obama, has spent millions portraying the business career of Republican Mitt Romney as ruinous to the lives of people who worked for some of the companies that Romney’s Bain Capital took over....
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President Barack Obama speaks during a campaign event at George Mason University in Fairfax, Virginia, on Oct. 19, 2012.
Obama-Backing Super-PAC Outraises Romney-Backers with $15.2 Million
Updated at 5 pm EDT A super-political action committee backing President Barack Obama slightly outraised a super-PAC supporting Republican challenger Mitt Romney last month. Priorities USA Action, run by former Obama aides, will report $15.2 million in September contributions when...
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Mitt Romney will pay for running mate Paul Ryan’s budget, if the super-PAC backing President Barack Obama has anything to say about it. President Barack Obama will pay for his health-care act, if one of the super-PACs backing Romney has...
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