Archive: President 2008
Volatility Beneath Stability
The new Pew Research Center survey released today finds little change in either the primary contest between Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama or the potential general election match-ups between either Democrat and John McCain. But potential negatives on both Democratic candidates are percolating beneath the stable horse-race numbers. Obama appears...
By Jennifer Agiesta | March 27, 2008; 05:27 PM ET | Comments (3)
Bloomberg Odds
Michael Bloomberg's decision to bolt the Republican Party comes at a time when the GOP's public rating has dipped to its lowest level in nearly 18 years, in at least one poll, and stokes speculation behind a potential independent candidacy. In the NBC News-Wall Street Journal poll released late last...
By Jon Cohen | June 20, 2007; 01:08 PM ET | Comments (1)
McCain's Money Chase
Hoping to rebound from a disappointing fundraising haul during the first quarter, Arizona Republican Sen. John McCain has scheduled a blitz of money events - 18 over the next 22 days - to support his presidential campaign. He's raising money in Texas and Washington this week and then off to...
By | May 23, 2007; 02:40 PM ET | Comments (1)
Living in Iowa
Former Wisconsin Gov. Tommy Thompson has made visits to Iowa a centerpiece of his campaign, with at least 36 events in the state since January. In fact, Thompson has made public visits to just five states, according to washingtonpost.com's Campaign Tracker. Thanks to the repeat visits of Thompson and other...
By | May 18, 2007; 05:50 PM ET | Email a Comment
Who Raised the Most Among Various Industries?
(The Washington Post) While Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton (D-N.Y.) and former Massachusetts governor Mitt Romney have raised the most so far among their respective parties in the race for president, other candidates move to the forefront when you look at the totals from contributors in various industries. For instance,...
By | May 16, 2007; 05:25 PM ET | Comments (2)
Richardson's New Mexico Cash Boom
On a presidential candidate's list of lucrative donor destinations, New Mexico barely rates a mention (its electoral competitiveness is another story). During the entire 2004 election, New Mexican donors combined to give just more than $3 million to the presidential candidates. But now that Bill Richardson, the state's governor, is...
By | May 7, 2007; 06:30 PM ET | Comments (4)
Democratic Donor Cities: Spreading the Wealth
When Democratic and Republican presidential candidates go out to raise money, they have a circuit of cities that provide a stable supply of donors. A look at the recently-released first quarter filings shows that 17 cities provided money for the seven major candidates listed in the Post's campaign finance database,...
By | April 23, 2007; 04:00 PM ET | Email a Comment
Presidential Campaign Web Spending
Now that the presidential candidates' first-quarter reports are on the Web, let's look at how much the top fundraisers spent on their Web operations. Far and away the biggest Web spender is former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney, who has paid out at least $618,298 on "Web services" for his campaign....
By | April 16, 2007; 12:36 PM ET | Email a Comment
Moving Money
Sen. Hillary Clinton, D-N.Y., did it, as did her fellow presidential candidates Sen. Chris Dodd, D-Conn., Sen. Joe Biden, D-Del., Rudy Giuliani, R-N.Y., Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., Sen Sam Brownback, R-Kan., Rep. Duncan Hunter, R-Calif., and Rep. Tom Tancredo, R-Colo. They all transferred money from previously existing federal campaign accounts...
By | April 15, 2007; 09:11 PM ET | Email a Comment
