Million Dollar-Plus Political Donors Rise
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There are more people giving &#36;1 million or more to partisan political groups now than before Congress passed a law aimed at taking seven-figure contributions out of elections, new figures show.
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To raise $850,000 for Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton's presidential campaign in just eight months, Norman Hsu tapped an eclectic group of donors that included wealthy investors in his apparel ventures, hotel shopkeepers, a 96-year-old in a Florida retirement home and an auto-body worker who mistaken...
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CHICAGO, Feb. 15  /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- In the last two years, more than $29 million has flowed into campaign funds controlled by Chicago city officials and their challengers, and now it's easy for voters to identify the big contributors and see where the money is going.
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Bloomberg - Feb. 7 (Bloomberg) -- Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama raised almost $6 million after the Feb. 5 voting contests, all of which came from online donations.
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Money follows power. That simple axiom helps explain why incumbent members of Congress, on average, raise so much more campaign cash than the candidates who want to supplant them.
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Rudy Giuliani raised $15 million for his Republican presidential primary bid from April through June, boosting his New York fundraising base and more than doubling his donations from Florida.
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Interest groups that can urge the public to vote for or against candidates have spent at least &#36;25 million on the presidential race since Labor Day, with John Kerry's supporters outspending Bush's by more than 4-to-1.
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The presidential election  is 14 months away and with as many as 17 candidates now  running, U.S. television and radio broadcasters are elated at  the prospect of billions more in advertising dollars.
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Sens. Barack Obama and Hillary Rodham Clinton each surpassed the $100 million fundraising mark for their presidential campaigns in 2007, according to people directly familiar with their finance operations, the first time two candidates have eclipsed that milestone before a single primary vote was...
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The Internet is changing the nature of political fund raising. The Illinois Senator has proved that small donors really matter
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Mitt Romney poured twice as much of his own money into his campaign than he received from all outside donors combined in the final months of last year, according to new campaign finance reports
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Survey shows that donations to the 400 largest nonprofit organizations increased by 2.3 percent in 2003, to more than $47 billion.
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Senator Barack Obamaâs campaign has employed novel tactics, like counting sales of $4.50 key chains as contributions, to pump up numbers and cultivate support.
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Technology employees are donating slightly more money to the Republican party.
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Republican presidential candidate Ron Paul so far has raised more than $18 million in the final three months of the year, an aide to the Texas congressman said Monday.
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U.S. advertising spending rose 6.4 percent in the first half of 2004, driven by double-digit increases from top automakers and battleground state advertising for the two presidential candidates, tracking firm Nielsen Monitor-Plus said on Tuesday.
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The presidential fund-raising season is already well underway. The top five moneybags in both parties--and who hopes to get their checks.