Campaigns prepare for big spending
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Presidential campaigns are hoarding money for a coming advertising blitz &#151; mostly in Iowa and New Hampshire &#151; during the final three months of the year on airwaves already saturated with candidate commercials.
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Clinton campaign has to deploy 'big dog' Bill with care as the Democratic contest continues
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What's a presidential candidate to do on the eve of an important birthday? Hold a big fundraiser, of course.
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A concentrated burst of advertising is putting the candidatesâ strategies out in the open and is highlighting the diverging financial fortunes of the two parties.
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Barack Obama raised $32 million for his Democratic presidential nominating campaign in January, a huge haul that aides said will give him the ability to compete in a potentially long and costly race.
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Could Obama really get $40 million? Is Rudy still raking it in? As second quarter fundraising comes down to the wire, the major candidates are doing their best to win the expectations game
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Election officials Wednesday proposed overhauling the way tax dollars can be used to cover the cost of running for president, including an increase in the amount that can be spent by primary candidates who take public money.
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The turnout drive is the latest sign of both the early start and bulging budgets of the 2008 presidential campaign.
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Variety - (Variety) NEW YORK There's still more than three months to go before the November election and the two presidential candidates and their supporters have spent millions more on TV ads than was spent during the entire 2000 race for the Oval Office.
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LONDON (CBS.MW) - Advertising spending on the US election this year is expected around $1.5 billion, ahead of WPP Group&#39;s initial projection at around $1 billion, the financial director of the London-based group confirmed Friday.
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A brief history of the Presidential Election Campaign Fund:
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The two Democratic candidates will have raised more than $100 million this year, setting a historic new threshold in fundraising
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The top candidates in both parties find their bank accounts depleted just as the most expensive phase of the race is about to begin.
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Finance reports show that candidates are already building up operations in several states whose early primaries have forced a burst of spending.
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In the most expensive presidential contest in the nation's history, John F. Kerry and his Democratic supporters nearly matched President Bush and the Republicans, who outspent them by just &#36;60 million, &#36;1.14 billion to &#36;1.08 billion.
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Sixty outside groups - and counting - make their dollars felt in campaigns.
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The most expensive U.S. congressional campaign in the country this election year will likely be the one in the Dallas area where two incumbents are slugging it out in a Texas-sized battle.