“Political fundraising” on The Daily Caller

Republican presidential candidate Herman Cain may be going through hell as he fights sexual harassment allegations dating back to the 1990s, but he’s raising some serious dough in the process. (more)

In an effort to keep corporate money out of politics, Senate Democrats have proposed a constitutional amendment that would grant Congress the power to regulate the “raising and spending of money for federal political campaigns” and “allow states to regulate such spending at their level.” (more)

Despite news outlets devoting breathless hours of coverage to allegations that he had sexually harassed two female subordinates in the 1990s, Republican presidential candidate Herman Cain hauled in approximately $250,000 in donations Monday. (more)

The president is facing a very tough re-election campaign, first lady Michelle Obama told audiences at three Florida fundraisers on Thursday. (more)

President Barack Obama told an audience in San Francisco Tuesday that the famous “hope” poster, popular during his 2008 campaign for president, is “kind of faded” and that it’s “not as trendy to be an Obama supporter” today as it was during his first run for the White House. (more)

Herman Cain raised $2.8 million in the third quarter and has $1 million cash on hand, according to his campaign. (more)

Former Obama administration Department of Energy loan programs adviser Steve Spinner jumped up a bracket in fundraising for the president’s re-election campaign. (more)

President Barack Obama presided over 11 fundraisers in September, while Vice President Joe Biden conducted 12 and the first lady led four fundraisers of her own. (more)

Republican presidential candidate and Texas Rep. Ron Paul brought in more than $8 million in fundraising for the third-quarter, exceeding the $5 million he was expected to report. (more)

President Barack Obama’s 2012 campaign is sending out a flurry of fundraising appeals as the financial quarter comes to a close, amid growing evidence that the campaign is falling behind on its ambitious goals. (more)

GOP presidential candidate Ron Paul’s campaign fundraising efforts reportedly raised $5 million in the third quarter of 2011. (more)

Former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney will report having raised between $11 and $13 million over the last three months, according to a source familiar with the tally. (more)

At a town hall event Wednesday, GOP presidential candidate Mitt Romney dismissed a question about the $1 million donation to his super PAC by a short-lived company, saying there was “no harm, no foul.” (more)

GOP presidential candidate Ron Paul’s fans gave him a big present for his 76th birthday this weekend. (more)

President Obama campaigned in 2008 on being an outsider to “politics as usual,” but a new report from the Center for Responsive Politics finds that one-third of the bundled donations raised for the president’s reelection campaign are coming from Wall Street bigwigs. (more)

For the first time in her career, Republican Sen. Olympia Snowe of Maine will face several GOP primary challengers. While the senator from Maine is out-fundraising those candidates so far, it is expected that her 2012 re-election bid will be up against a well coordinated Tea Party effort. (more)

GOP presidential candidate Newt Gingrich said Monday that his former campaign staff, which he characterizes as outside consultants, drove his campaign into debt. (more)

On Friday afternoon, heading into the holiday weekend, Tim Pawlenty’s presidential campaign announced that it raised $4.2 million in the second fundraising quarter that ended Thursday at midnight. (more)

Over the last year and a half, particularly since the labor dispute between the state of Wisconsin and its public employees, there has been a lot of effort at MSNBC aimed at casting the Koch brothers as billionaires trying to interfere with the democratic process. But a case could be made that MSNBC isn’t so far removed from money influencing the democratic process either. (more)

Fund-raising by the Republican presidential candidates appears to be off to a slow start this year, hindered by the struggling economy, the absence of a clear and compelling front-runner, and the desire of many of the party’s biggest donors to wait and see how the race develops. (more)