“Fundraising” on The Daily Caller

Former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney’s presidential campaign expects to raise less money this quarter than rival Texas Gov. Rick Perry, an aide told The Daily Caller on Wednesday. (more)

You can find fault with Barack Obama on a lot of issues, but you can’t argue with his fundraising prowess. The president’s team may have been a bit cocky when they set their 2012 fundraising targets, and they may fall a bit short of those lofty goals. Still, one thing is clear: Whoever wins the GOP nomination will have a significantly smaller bank account than Obama. (more)

A man who appears to be a National Public Radio senior executive, Ron Schiller, has been captured on camera savaging conservatives and the Tea Party movement. (more)

It’s Christine O’Donnell versus the world. (more)

“Is there a proven method to online fundraising?” I can’t tell you how often I get that question. Having worked on dozens of campaigns over the years, I feel confident that the answer is yes. (more)

The Republican National Committee’s inability to reach its own fundraising goals for this year’s elections was more serious than its budget makers expected and the malaise has even spread to small-money donors, The Washington Times has learned. (more)

Lost in all of the attention paid to the heavy spending by Republican-oriented independent groups in this year’s midterm elections is that Democratic candidates have generally wielded a significant head-to-head financial advantage over their Republican opponents in individual competitive races. (more)

WASHINGTON (AP) — Grasping for the electric energy that propelled him to the White House, President Barack Obama whipped up young supporters at a rally Thursday night, where the boisterous crowd tried to shout down any talk of an “enthusiasm gap” among Democrats. (more)

Some of the Republican Party’s biggest donors – businessmen like Texas homebuilder Bob Perry and Manhattan hedge fund tycoon Paul Singer – have a message for President Barack Obama and his fellow Democrats: They’re back. (more)

Corporations have begun to send a majority of donations from their political action committees to Republican candidates, a reversal from the trend of the past three years. (more)

House Democrats are heading into the last leg of the midterm race with a better funded campaign committee than their GOP rivals, according to early numbers released to Washington Wire this evening. (more)

On the surface, the RNC's financial problems aren't that bad. Yes, the party is raising less than it has in previous years, but they don't control the WH or Congress. And with a little more than $8M on hand after debts, the RNC actually has more to spend than the DNC, which has just over $7M after accounting for debts. (more)

ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) — The share of Democratic supporters donating to Charlie Crist’s U.S. Senate campaign has multiplied since the Florida governor left the GOP in April to run as an independent, according to an analysis by The Associated Press. (more)

Some leading tea party activists are concerned that their efforts to reshape American politics, starting with the 2010 elections, are being undermined by a shortage of cash that’s partly the result of a deep ambivalence within the movement’s grassroots over the very idea of fundraising, and partly attributable to an inability to win over the wealthy donors who fund the conservative establishment. (more)

Democratic leaders are pushing departing lawmakers to turn over their war chests to help the party retain control of Congress, but in some cases are getting a stiff-arm. (more)

With less than 100 days until November’s midterm elections, it appears that President Barack Obama is picking up the pace when it comes to helping out his party with fundraising. (more)

The so-called DISCLOSE Act currently under consideration in the Senate is an affront to personal liberties protected under the First and Ninth Amendments of the U.S. Constitution. This knee-jerk reaction to Citizens United v. FEC constitutes a clear and present danger not only to the expressly stated freedom of speech listed in the First Amendment, but to the reasonable expectation of privacy and freedom of association American citizens have held throughout this country’s proud history. (more)

Republicans vying for open U.S. Senate seats from Florida to Missouri raised millions more dollars than Democrats in 2010’s second quarter, filings show.
Marco Rubio, the Republican candidate in Florida, brought in more than $4.5 million, his campaign said. His Democratic opponent, Representative Kendrick Meek, raised more than $1 million, according to his website. The independent candidate, Governor Charlie Crist, hasn’t reported yet.
Republicans in Illinois, Indiana, Missouri and Pennsylvania also out-raised their rivals in the period from April 1 through June 30. A backlash against Democrats, who control Congress and the White House, may be boosting fundraising for Republicans such as Rubio, a former state house speaker.
“The wind is to their back,” Clyde Wilcox, a government professor at Georgetown University in Washington, said regarding the Republicans. Still, he cautioned that the political climate could change before the November elections, and that Democrats are working to make races more about local concerns than national issues.
Full story: Republicans Show Strength in Fundraising for Open Senate Seats – BusinessWeek
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LAS VEGAS (AP) — Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid and Republican Sharron Angle are raising money at a nearly equal clip in Nevada’s Senate race, but the senator holds a big edge in the bank. (more)

Mitt Romney’s political action committee blew away his potential rivals’, according to reports, in money raised during the latest fundraising period. Meanwhile, Former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich’s political groups combined raised nearly twice as much as Romney, though most was raised through a 527 group that doesn’t have the fundraising limits that the other PACs do. (more)