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Hucksters for Huckabee
BY Josh Israel | February 01, 2008
Republican Mike Huckabee’s campaign blog promotes “Max Out for Mike,” a one-day online fundraising effort. “Although we don’t encourage anyone to contribute money they simply don’t have, look around you,” the event’s organizers advise. “What can you sell to a friend or online? Can you work some overtime? Can you cut back sacrificially on your spending temporarily?”
That’s $14,500 an Hour
BY Sarah Laskow | January 04, 2008
Nearly $190,000 flows into Republican Mike Huckabee’s war chest overnight after his victory in the Iowa caucuses, according to before-and-after tallies on the campaign’s website.
Down the Tube
BY Sarah Laskow | January 02, 2008
Republican Mike Huckabee, who’s apparently trailing Mitt Romney in Iowa on the eve of the state’s caucuses, blew $150,000 on anti-Romney TV spots, radio ads, and mailers that he later decided to ax, reports The Politico, a Washington-based political newspaper.
Catch-Up Commercials
BY Caitlin Ginley | December 19, 2007
Republican Mitt Romney will try to regain his lead in Iowa by spending more than $430,000 on television ads there this week (twice what GOP front-runner Mike Huckabee’s campaign will spend), The Politico, a Washington-based newspaper, reports.
Pussshhh Polls
BY Sarah Laskow | December 04, 2007
Patrick Davis, the political consultant who’s running TrustHuckabee, which has been orchestrating push polls in Iowa, tells The Washington Post that he will not disclose the organization’s donors or expenses. Republican Mike Huckabee has asked the group to cease operations, saying: “I don’t know who’s behind it. It really defeats the kind of politics that I want the campaign to be a part of.”
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