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McCain Money News Roundup for Oct. 31, 2008
One of Barack Obama's hometown newspapers, the Chicago Sun-Times, chimes in with an editorial today inspired by Obama's half-hour infomercial. The paper notes that the program was the product of the huge funding disparity between Obama (who opted out of public financing) and John McCain (who took $84 million in ...
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McCain Money News Roundup for Oct. 30, 2008
Even though only five days remain until Election Day, reports are still coming out about questionable donors to John McCain's presidential campaign. In The Chicago Tribune, Andrew Zajac, Ray Gibson and Bob Secter write about Shi Sheng Hao, "a virtual unknown in business and political circles." Since September ...
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McCain Money News Roundup for Oct. 29, 2008
As the presidential campaigns both shift into ground-game mode, actual news is slow in coming. However, the Boston Herald has an interesting story about John McCain's VP pick, Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin. The paper's Laura Crimaldi reports that Palin spent $51,000 in taxpayer money to remodel the governor's mansion in ...
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McCain Money News Roundup for Oct. 28, 2008
MccClatchy Newspapers' Greg Gordon filed an interesting report yesterday that appears to debunk John McCain's claim that, after the embarrassment of the Keating Five scandal, he never again pressured regulators on behalf of a friend. In fact, the story says McCain "promoted an Arizona land swap that would've benefited a ...
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McCain Money News Roundup for Oct. 27, 2008
John McCain's ties to gambling interests have been getting a bit more attention these days – look at these recent reports by The Associated Press and CBS News. Now, that relationship is the subject of a new ad by Campaign Money Watch – more details about the ad will be ...
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McCain Money News Roundup for Oct. 24, 2008
The presidential candidates have now released their pre-election campaign finance reports, the last official, comprehensive look we'll get at their spending and fundraising before Election Day. As the AP's Jim Kuhnhenn reports, John McCain has been spending about $1.5 million a day and "likely has only $12 million to spend ...
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McCain Money News Roundup for Oct. 23, 2008
The furor over Sarah Palin's $150,000 clothing makeover – courtesy of the Republican National Committee – continued on what was a fairly slow news day yesterday. Today, The New York Times' Patrick Healy and Michael Luo report on how the spending spree may undercut Palin's "hockey mom" image. Luo and ...
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McCain Money News Roundup for Oct. 22, 2008
Sarah Palin's understated yet sharp fashion sense has won some attention since John McCain tapped her to be his vice presidential running mate. But it turns out that signature Palin look is courtesy of the Republican National Committee, which, as Politico's Jeanne Cummings reports, has shelled out $150,000 to dress ...
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McCain Money News Roundup for Oct. 21, 2008
On the heels of reports that Barack Obama had raised $150 million in September, we learned that John McCain had $47 million on hand for October campaigning. But McCain is still, legally, tapping money from other sources.
As The Wall Street Journal's T.W. Farnam reports, McCain has been using money from ...
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McCain Money News Roundup for Oct. 20, 2008
Even with two weeks to go until the election, yet another connection between John McCain and troubled mortgage giant Freddie Mac has come to light.
Word came out this weekend that Freddie Mac secretly paid Republican firm DCI Group to lobby GOP senators to oppose legislation that would have increased regulations ...