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October 16, 2015
Leading presidential candidates have nationwide financial support; many stragglers, not so much
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October 16, 2015 The vast majority of contributions to all the top presidential candidates have come from outside the Washington, D.C. metro area – except in the case of Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.). More than half of the $2.5 million Paul raised between July 1 and Sept. 30 came from D.C. and its suburbs, Federal Election Commission data… Continue Reading »
October 15, 2015 With just 156,000 citizens, the Balkan city of Podgorica is no Istanbul or Jerusalem — or even Baku. Members of Congress rarely travel to the capital of Montenegro, a former Yugoslav republic. And yet there was Rep. Robert Aderholt (R-Ala.) — chairman of the House Appropriations subcommittee on agriculture — last May, at no charge… Continue Reading »
October 14, 2015 Republican presidential candidate Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) has a strategy to take his campaign all the way to the convention, and it runs straight through the U.S. Virgin Islands. To make it work, though, his campaign will have to navigate a tricky intra-party rivalry on the islands brought to a boil in part by a… Continue Reading »
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