Posts tagged "Campaign Finance"

The GOP presidential candidates collectively have raised more than $300 million in this election cycle, according to Federal Election Commission data. Here's a quick look at where several of those candidates... Read more →

From Huffington Post:  Reports about January’s fundraising numbers, released on February 20, have focused on two narratives: Mitt Romney’s limited fundraising and high burn rate and the role that super... Read more →

Stephen Colbert this week used word clouds — visual representations of word frequencies in selected blocks of text — to tell a story about his political action committee. Colbert recently... Read more →

Now that Texas Gov. Rick Perry, R-Texas, is officially in the presidential race, reporters are noting his campaign fundraising prowess as a possible strength that could propel him to the GOP nomination: ... Read more →

Members of Congress recently filed their quarterly campaign-finance reports, which detail their political fundraising, spending, cash on hand and debts. The Center for Responsive Politics posted the totals for all... Read more →

Another cross-post from my work blog: The 2010 political campaigns are over, but looking back at the fundraising and spending that financed them is now fully possible thanks to records... Read more →

From Visual Complexity: “This radial convergence interactive graphic shows the money flow from private donators to parties in the German Bundestag.” Pretty fancy:  Read more →