According to a report from the Sunlight Foundation, Mitt Romney will demand to outraise President Barack Obama by $158 million over the following four months if he wants to capture the lead in overall fundraising. This punctures a bit of the fresh narrative of Romney having passed Obama in fundraising. Sunlight’s Bill Allison: “For Mitt Romney, the magic number is $158 million. That’s how much he’ll have to outraise President Barack Obama over the at the end four months of the campaign to surpass the president, the record holder for campaign fundraising. Obama’s advantage has been lost in media reports highighting the Republican nominee’s $106 million June haul. Much Obama’s campaign, including the president himself, has downplayed its financial advantage when it warns of being outspent by Romney and the Republican National Committee. For that to happen, Romney would have to best Obama by $39.5 million a month for each of the at the end four months of the campaign, which is $5 million more than the advantage Romney had in June. An analysis of Federal Election Commission (FEC) disclosure reports starting when Obama and Romney formally told their candidacies running through the end of May 2012, and adding in totals the campaigns have announced for June, shows that Obama and his affiliated groups have raised $552.5 million, compared to Romney’s $394.9 million. For Obama, the total includes money from the president’s campaign committee (Obama for America), the Democratic National Committee and two joint fundraising committees — Obama Victory 2012 and Swing State Victory Fund. For Romney, the figure includes money from the campaign, the Republican National Committee and Romney Victory Inc., the joint fundraising committee Romney formed in April.”Broadcasters have made an emergency go to try and block a fresh policy that will require broadcast television stations to tell their file of political advertising buys online for the first age, ProPublica reports.Lesbians immediately have a super PAC, HuffPost reports.Glance at More…
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