Donnelly,
the Campaign Money Watch director, says the proof on health - care reform will be in the final product — and that he's not terribly optimistic.
Not exact matches
If you've
watched any of the coverage of this year's presidential
campaigns, you've heard Donald Trump talk a big game about how much
money he gives away.
Things that have made me laugh: the idea that donating
money to the Obama
campaign will make his team stop emailing me, Louis CK, Sawyer trying to eat my new
watch.
Watch for Kate to keep an eye on how they use that
money to support a Trump
campaign that's openly disparaged political data and digital outreach.
And I suspect, I hope, that the
money's just simply going to become less important and that ultimately,
campaigns make a determination that hey, they might better spend their time with the candidate out doing other things and actually thinking about the argument and the message that you want to send, than constantly raising all this
money that buys you maybe some TV ads that nobody's
watching but nothing that's gonna actually turn the
campaign in your favor.
WASHINGTON (CNN)- Republican Bob McDonnell has more
money in his
campaign war chest than any of his potential Democratic rivals in the closely -
watched Virginia governor's race, his
campaign announced Monday.
The real
money, even for longtime incumbents, comes out of Washington, where congressional
campaign managers on both sides are carefully
watching developments in close districts.
(He has previously been
campaigning and raising
money — you can
watch our report from a candidate forum he attended in March here.)
But many Democrats say they, too, will be
watching to see whether Cuomo and the powerful unions allied with him
campaign and raise
money for Kaminsky or stay on the sidelines.
At least Freedom
Watch is raising their
campaign money from donors that give freely to a cause they believe in, whereas the union members who are not Democrats are being forced to give their union dues
money to the political party they don't support.
Watching House of Cards is certainly more fun than funding the real House of Cards, but the lack of engagement from voters in the
money side of
campaigns has serious, deleterious effects.