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House-Keeping
BY Josh Israel | February 08, 2008
Republican Ron Paul announces that he will scale back his presidential campaign and focus on getting reelected to the House of Representatives, though he vows to stay in the presidential race through the GOP convention.
The Ads Ad Up
BY Josh Israel | February 05, 2008
In the two weeks leading up to Super Tuesday, Democrats Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama poured more than $21 million combined into television advertising, CNN reports. This was more than three times the amount collectively spent by Republican candidates Mike Huckabee, John McCain, Ron Paul, and Mitt Romney. Candidates and independent groups have spent more than $169 million on television ads this election cycle — a record amount.
Paul Bearer
BY Caitlin Ginley | January 16, 2008
Richard Viguerie, who’s been dubbed “the funding father of the conservative movement,” has launched a website that bills itself as a “one-stop shopping mall” for Republican Ron Paul, The Washington Post reports.
More >Paul’s Haul
BY Sarah Laskow | December 31, 2007
Republican Ron Paul’s fourth-quarter fundraising haul of $19 million is the largest by any GOP candidate since Mitt Romney raised $20.8 million in the first quarter of 2007, according to The Wall Street Journal.
Haul Monitor
BY | December 17, 2007
Republican Ron Paul’s campaign says that it raised a record-shattering $6 million on December 16 — “arguably the largest single-day fundraising haul in U.S. political history,” the Washington-based Politico reports.



