Wealthy candidates face money questions
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Two multimillionaires in the presidential race Â two ways to spend their money. Republican Mitt Romney has pumped more than $17 million of his own into his race; Democrat John Edwards, by law, can tap his fortune for no more than $50,000.
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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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Is that poor restaurant worker who gave $1,000 to the campaign a real donor, or an illegal proxy? That's the question every campaign is trying to figure out how to answer
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With the cost of the 2008 presidential campaign likely to top one billion dollars for the first time, the race for the White House is driven more than ever by candidates' quest for campaign cash.
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The rich are getting richer. Well, not all of them. Some have taken the billion-dollar plunge.
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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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The race for presidential cash in its infancy, Sen. John McCain reported Wednesday he had collected $1.7 million in his campaign's first few weeks while Republican rival Rudy Giuliani's early take was $1.4 million.
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As we move into the final weeks of the 2006 election it is likely millionaire candidates will be writing more checks to their own campaigns. PoliticalMoneyLine has created a new chronological listing to track the millionaire money.
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Politicians quizzed financial aides to Prince Charles on the heir to the British throne's multi-million pound (dollar) income, in an unprecedented probe into the finances of the royal family.
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By SAM HANANEL and MARY CLARE JALONICK  WASHINGTON - From Texas billionaires to Washington lobbyists, it's no secret that wealthy people can get federal farm subsidies.
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The debate over his stewardship of the economy is one of the central themes of the campaign.
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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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A brief history of the Presidential Election Campaign Fund:
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Whatever the reasons John Kerry and the Democrats lost the race for the White House, lack of money wasn't one. Tax-exempt pro-Democratic groups raising big checks for this year's election collected almost twice as much money as their Republican rivals in the presidential race, a study shows. The financial advantage comes in addition to record fund raising by Kerry, the unsuccessful candidate, and the Democratic Party.
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While on a tour highlighting poverty this week, Democratic presidential candidate John Edwards faced more questions about whether his focus on the issue was undermined by, among other things, his work at a hedge fund and his $6 million house. A closer look at his campaign finance reports reveals...
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Answers to 20 thoughtful questions lobbed at some of America's wealthiest entrepreneurs.
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The life of a big-dollar Democratic donor isn't always easy. In between attending lavish parties and being wined and dined by various luminaries, sometimes you have to make tough choices.