By Josh Marshall
I mentioned earlier today that it was quite a thing to see John McCain denouncing Barack Obama for breaking his word on public financing when McCain himself is at this moment breaking the law in continuing to spend over the spending limits he promised to abide by through the primary season in exchange [...]

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Jeanne Cummings does the math:
• If each of Obama’s donors gave him a modest $250, he’d have $375 million to spend during the two-month general election sprint. That’s $186 million a month, $47 million a week.
• During the same September to Nov. 4 period, McCain will have about $85 million to spend, since he has [...]

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Barack Obama was campaigning last October in South Carolina when he got an urgent call from Penny Pritzker, the hotel heiress who leads his campaign’s finance committee. About 200 of his biggest fund raisers were meeting in Des Moines, Iowa, and among them, near panic was setting in. Pritzker’s team had raised money faster than [...]

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by DHinMI

Yesterday it was speculated that that Hillary Clinton’s campaign was getting caught under growing debt while Barack Obama continues to raise massive amounts of money.
Today we learned more about the finances of the two campaigns.  First, Obama’s fundraising:
Senator Barack Obama’s campaign announced today that more than 442,000 contributors across the country gave more than [...]

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