Dan Eggen

As of mid-October the two presidential campaigns still had nearly $300 million in cash on hand.

Presidential candidates are spending massive sums on a more traditional form of communication: snail mail

The liberal billionaire investor who has largely laid low during the 2012 elections, announces $1.5 million in pledged donations.

Grass-roots fundraising program will allow supporters to send $50 or less by texting “GIVE” to 62262 — or “Obama.”

President Obama has fallen behind Republican Mitt Romney in monthly fundraising totals and may now be the underdog in the 2012 money race.

The excesses of the Nixon era ushered in a series of wide-ranging restrictions on the use of money in campaigns. But the intervening decades have also brought changes that have undercut many of the political financing rules put in place in response to the Watergate scandal.

Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney has surged ahead of President Obama in fundraising for the first time.

The former Utah governor’s selection comes earlier than usual for a presidential challenger.

A Georgian billionaire brings his political campaign to Washington, hiring a half-dozen major lobbying firms ahead of parliamentary elections in October.

A May 10 Obama fundraising dinner at Hollywood actor George Clooney’s house has sold out at up to $40,000 a person, plus millions more brought in through an Internet contest