When he had to fight off competitors within his own party, Mitt Romney's campaign war chest was dwarfed by Barack Obama's, but now that he's the only Republican candidate, his April intake almost matched the president's.
Any party that sends you home with a $15 million goody bag can be considered a successful bash, but the fundraiser George Clooney hosted for Barack Obama Thursday night sounds like it was actually an enjoyable evening, which is an added bonus.
The left-leaning magazine The American Prospect needs a benefactor, and quickly: It's short in its funding, according to The Huffington Post's Michael Calderone, and needs $500,000 just to stay open past the end of May.
Vice President Joe Biden sounds he's moving from blue humor ("how big a stick is it?") to insult comedy, telling a room full of donors at a breakfast event that they looked, "dull as hell."
Abake Assongba donated around $50,000 to President Obama's campaign and is one of his 400 volunteer fundraisers, the only problem is that she's being accused of fraud, impersonating a bank official, and dodging creditors to the tune of over $650,000.
If CBS wanted to depict attendees as caricatures of moneyed power, they couldn't have picked a better place than Florida's private over-the-top bastion of leisure and luxury the Ocean Reef Club.
President Obama's raised $29.1 million in January, outpacing last year's figures, but the president's team would also like to remind you that 98 percent of those donations were $250 and less.
Ron Paul hasn't been able to score a win in the primary season (the disputed contest in Maine is only the latest example of his frustration) but that hasn't stopped his supporters from showering him with cash.
The trade group that represents Hollywood loathes President Obama's opposition to SOPA but that won't stop Tinseltown's biggest names from pouring cash into his re-election bid.
Despite the angry words and hurt feelings on both sides of the argument, this week's controversy will see both the Susan G. Komen for the Cure Foundation and Planned Parenthood come out ahead in one very important area: fundraising.
When Reddit likes something, it gets really really liked. After someone posted a photo of a Kenyan orphanage worker who took a machete to the face while fending off the thieves, the Associated Press reports the site raised $80,000 in less than a week for the orphanage.
The Obama campaign just filed its last quarter's Federal Election Commission report, revealing once again that the president's knack for microfinancing -- often through selling overpriced trinkets on his website -- is providing him with quite the war chest for next year.
President Obama swung through New York City on a fundraising tour on Thursday, that included an impromptu singing performance on the stage of the Apollo Theater.
Occupy Wall Street's money troubles are taking their toll on the group's activity, as it voted on Saturday to stop funding any new projects from its dwindling supply of donated funds, the Wall Street Journal reports.
Not to be outdone by his top Republican rival, Barack Obama's campaign announced that he'd raised more than $42 million for the last quarter of 2011, compared with the $24 million Mitt Romney raised to outdo his competitors in the Republican primary field.
Rick Santorum raised more than $1 million in the day after the Iowa caucus and has brought in more cash via online donations in last week then he did in the previous six months combined.
And now they're being replaced by just as silly "thank you" banners for the more than one million donors (along with non-donating bystanders) who got them to the $20 million benchmark.
The incumbent continued to outraise the combined field of Republican challengers
The outlier candidate can still bring in the bucks
Hot Air and Drudge reported that the Texas governor has likely outraised Mitt Romney
Today's message from Joe Biden is a bit pushy
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