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...Obama has been outdoing Clinton, often by a margin of three to one. The contrast was evident in early April in Missoula, where 8,500 people cheered an Obama rally at the University of Montana. The next day, Clinton outlined her case to 1,500 people at a fund raiser in an airport hangar. Obama drew 7,000 on May 19 at Montana State University in Bozeman. As in other places, many of his fans are young, noisy and eager to help...
...advisers are current or former influence peddlers. The issue remained mostly a distraction until early May, when McCain parted ways with two aides whose firm once lobbied for the Burmese military junta, a regime he condemns. Now the lobbyist issue is roiling McCainLand, prompting more departures--including top fund raiser and former Representative Thomas Loeffler--and a strict conflict-of-interest policy. The sudden house-cleaning has raised an awkward question: Why is McCain seemingly drawn to people from the world's second-oldest profession? (Campaign manager Rick Davis and top strategist Charlie Black are both former lobbyists.) Some suggest...
...damaging images of Brown that have just emerged in two other new autobiographies by Westminster insiders. John Prescott, Deputy Prime Minister during the Blair years, paints Brown as a "frustrating, annoying, bewildering and prickly" colleague who could "go off like a bloody volcano." Lord Levy, the former Labour fund raiser, made a claim, immediately disputed by Blair's office, that Blair doubted Brown would be able to beat the telegenic young Conservative leader, David Cameron...
...high level and building a different kind of organization to pay for it. In the 2000 loss to Rush, Obama raised $600,000, an eye-popping figure for a first-time congressional candidate. Now, four years later, Obama laid down a challenge to Marty Nesbitt, a top fund raiser, as he eyed the U.S. Senate. "If you raise $4 million, I have a 40% chance of winning," Nesbitt recalls him saying. "If you raise $6 million, I have a 60% chance of winning. You raise $10 million, I guarantee you I can win." Said Nesbitt: "It was a matter...
...setbacks for Obama's seemingly charmed presidential campaign have come one on top of the other lately. There was his admittedly clumsy comments in a private fund raiser about "bitter" small-town voters who "cling" to religion and guns, questions about his association with a 1960s-era terrorist and nitpicking in a recent debate over why he doesn't wear an American flag pin on his lapel...