Senators outpace challengers' fundraising
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A Republican senator seeking re-election in Nevada pulled far ahead of his challenger in the race to raise money for the November election, reflecting a trend nationally.
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Facts and figures on political action committee spending in the presidential race since Labor Day:
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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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Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton spent more on her re-election than any other candidate for Senate this year.
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Battling for every dollar and delegate, Barack Obama raised $7.2 million in Super Tuesday's wake and Hillary Rodham Clinton pulled in $6.4 million, stunning totals reflecting the intensity of their neck-and-neck race for the Democratic presidential nomination.
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The Senate Democrats' fund-raising committee, trying to regain a Senate majority, led its Republican counterpart in contributions last month but has far less in the bank as the election approaches.
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WASHINGTON - Republicans and Democrats made little headway in their efforts to build up a meaningful majority in Tuesday&#39;s battles over 34 Senate seats.
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Republican John McCain and Democrat John Edwards are in danger of losing their place among the leading presidential contenders if their spring fundraising falls too short of earlier totals.
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Of the 22 candidates who each spent more than &#36;1 million of their own money trying to win their first election to Congress, only one made it.
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Sorry, Senator, but the numbers don't add up.
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House and Senate leaders were pushing for some legislative achievements before heading home to campaign.
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As the cost of presidential campaigns moves toward the $1 billion mark, leading congressional advocates of tougher campaign finance laws want to reduce the influence of special interests by pumping more taxpayer money into the system.
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Eager to cast its fundraising total for the second quarter in a positive light, the presidential campaign of Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton (D-N.Y.) said it expects to report raising less than Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.), taking in about $27 million, roughly equivalent to what Clinton drew in the first...
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Senator Barack Obama was lifted to victory by a high turnout. On the Republican side, Mike Huckabee defeated the better funded Mitt Romney.
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Barack Obama raised a staggering $32 million in January, cash aplenty to advertise all through the expensive Super Tuesday states and beyond. He was also running ads in more states than rival Hillary Rodham Clinton as the last two Democrats standing braced for Thursday night's face-to-face debate in California.
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Clinton secured more than $340M of special home-state projects in spending bills, while Obama had $91M; McCain rejected earmarks entirely.
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Sen. Barack Obama outraised Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton by $10 million in second-quarter contributions that can be spent on the Democratic presidential primary contest, aided by the contributions of 154,000 individual donors.