Sentences with phrase «few wealthy donors»

Especially now: The current crop of Republican Senate challengers is hoping the new avenues opened up by the Citizens United decision will help separate them from the shoestring New York Republican campaigns of the past and help them keep up with the better - established candidate, in the same way that a few wealthy donors have managed to keep alive the under - funded presidential ambitions of Rick Santorum and Newt Gingrich.

A few wealthy donors dominated the leave and remain campaigns.

Not exact matches

Charities may now look to use social media to reach a broader base of donors, rather than just a select few wealthy givers, Berman said.

Engaging more small donors and making legislators more dependent on their constituents, rather than a few wealthy special interests, offers an added layer of defense against corruption.

He could appeal to white ethnics in swing states, or rally the social liberals who admire him for having been out ahead of his party (and his president) on same - sex marriage, or perhaps headline a few fund - raisers with the wealthy New York donors who have stocked his own campaign coffers and funded the super PAC - like group dedicated to running pro-Cuomo advertising.

(It is hard to speak of a real democracy in a country such as the US where winning a presidential election costs $ 1 billion and where that $ 1 billion comes from a few very wealthy donors.)

«This leaves wealthy donors, political institutions, PACs and special interests, which after decades of the male - dominated structure, few women have the same connections to, and even fewer women of color.»