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  1. Looking back at mega donor Bob Perry's political giving

    By Sunlight Reporting Group Apr 15, 2013 10:38 a.m.

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  2. Super PACs next for Sanford and Colbert Busch?

    By Keenan Steiner Apr 3, 2013 4:49 p.m.

    With the race for a special House election in South Carolina now set, and polls showing it could be close, the outcome may partly hinge on who has the most money.

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  3. Teddy Turner gives himself $30 K as S.C. House race heads into home stretch

    By Kathy Kiely Mar 14, 2013 3:01 p.m.

    Political upstart Teddy Turner bankrolls himself as corporate bigs bankroll disgraced ex-Gov. Mark Sanford in a lively special election for a South Carolina House seat.

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  4. Cruz gears up fundraising machine

    By Kathy Kiely Mar 13, 2013 5:10 p.m.

    Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, who has managed to upend the adage about freshmen being seen and not heard in the less-than 10 weeks since he took his seat as the Lone Star State's junior senator, likes to portray himself as a political maverick. But when it comes to fundraising, he's playing like a classic insider.

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  5. Koch brother among donors to Mark Sanford redemption run

    By Kathy Kiely Mar 8, 2013 8:43 a.m.

    Updated 1:44 p.m. 3/8

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  6. Happy Birthday Richard Nixon -- RIP campaign finance reform?

    By Kathy Kiely and Bill Allison Jan 9, 2013 8:54 a.m.

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  7. Follow the money from big Dem donors to super PACs to races

    By Kathryn Lucero Nov 20, 2012 10:11 a.m.

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  8. Karl Rove's super PAC breaks $100 million in spending

    By Jacob Fenton Nov 6, 2012 11:02 a.m.

    American Crossroads, the super PAC run by Karl Rove, has spent more than $100 million.

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  9. Americans for Tax Reform spends big on House races

    By Jake Harper Oct 30, 2012 3:40 p.m.

    The nonprofit group Americans for Tax Reform is flooding several House races with more than $14 million in independent expenditures this month. The 501(c)4 lobbying group run by prominent conservative Grover Norquist has spent $1 million in six Senate contests, but its primary focus has been on bolstering Republican candidates for the House. Recent activity by ATR has made it one of the top spenders in a number of tight races, and in some districts the huge purchases have dwarfed all previous outside spending, according to Sunlight's Follow the Unlimited Money tracker.

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  10. Web of union giving

    By Kathryn Lucero Oct 29, 2012 8 a.m.

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  11. Week's outside spending favors Republicans 2:1

    By Jake Harper Oct 26, 2012 1:02 p.m.

    Less than two weeks before the election, outside spending took another big leap last week, jumping to $180 million since last Friday favoring Republicans nearly two-to-one.

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  12. Romney, Obama blitz Colorado with ads and visits

    By Nancy Watzman Oct 23, 2012 8:13 a.m.

    When GOP nominee Mitt Romney and President Barack Obama arrive in this battleground state for campaign rallies over the next 24 hours, they'll be accompanied by a barrage of television ads on programs ranging from news broadcasts to The View to Jimmy Kimmel to General Hospital.

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  13. Last-minute Democratic political donations don't close the money gap

    By Jacob Fenton and Kathy Kiely Oct 21, 2012 9:39 a.m.

    A flood of last-minute largesse from Democratic donors helped Priorities USA Action, the super PAC backing President Barack Obama's reelection, outraise its Republican counterpart for the second month in a row in September. But Republican-leaning outside spenders still headed into the last full month of the campaign with a huge cash advantage, an analysis of records filed overnight at the Federal Election Commission by Sunlight's Follow the Unlimited Money tracker shows.

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  14. Outside political spending continues to skyrocket

    By Jake Harper Oct 19, 2012 12:55 p.m.

    Of the $810 million in outside spending that Sunlight's Follow the Unlimited Money has tracked since the beginning of the campaign cycle, more than half has been laid out in the last six weeks.

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