2008 candidates load up on cash for final push
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Presidential candidates are scrambling to pad their bank accounts before the end of the third financial quarter on Sunday, loading up on cash for a big-spending three-month dash to the first votes in 2008.
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Based on a review of the 2005-2006 fundraising and spending activity of the 2008 presidential hopefuls, it is clear several had been in serious training during the last two years and hit the 2007 starting line at running speed. Others candidates were just starting to warm up.
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A look at positions of some of the 2008 presidential candidates on taxes:
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In winner-take-all Florida primary, Republican candidates made last-ditch push for votes.
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President Bush and John Kerry have accepted &#36;75 million each in government financing for their campaigns for the White House but tens of millions more will be spent by the parties and partisan interest groups to influence the race.
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Republican Mitt Romney, who surprised his presidential rivals last month with his one-day, $6.5 million haul, chased more cash Thursday as candidates faced the reality that dollars distinguish the legitimate hopefuls from the pretenders.
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Democratic Party leaders said Wednesday they want to know why Sen. John Kerry ended his presidential campaign with more than $15 million in the bank, money that could have helped Democratic candidates across the country.
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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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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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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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Under friendly fire, Sen. John Kerry likely will donate a substantial portion of his excess presidential campaign cash to help elect Democratic candidates in 2005 and 2006, advisers said Thursday.
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Republican Sen. John McCain raised nearly $12 million in January, propelled by victories in New Hampshire and South Carolina that solidified his place as the leading candidate for the GOP presidential nomination.
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Politics is a big-money business: In the current presidential election, President Bush and Sen. John Kerry have raised a combined total of nearly half a billion dollars, according to filings with the Federal Elections Commission.
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The campaign of Democrat John F. Kerry has earmarked $6 million for Democratic committees that support congressional candidates from the sizable surplus left over from the privately funded phase of his presidential campaign.
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President Bush and John Kerry began October neck and neck in campaign cash, each with just under half of the &#36;75 million in government money they received to cover campaign costs.
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While the early favorites in the  2008 presidential race fight for dollars and support, the  immediate challenge for a crowded band of lesser known  candidates is political survival.