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Conservative Group FreedomWorks Hit by Cyber Attack
By Christopher Weber - Politics DailyA planned "money bomb" thwarted by a cyber attack. No, it's not the stuff of comic books, but a page out of this year's election battles. FreedomWorks' computer server was hit by a mysterious hacker Thursday, and the conservative group said it believes it was targeted by a political foe just as it launched a major fundraising drive, sometimes also called a "money bomb," The Wall Street Journal reported. The FreedomWorks Web site went down at 9:45 a.m., just as its $200,000 money bomb was being promoted on conservative host Glenn Beck's radio show. The group estimated it lost about $80,000 in ...
Obama Raised $25 Million in One Day
By David Knowles - Politics DailyFurther analysis of the June fund-raising numbers reveals that Barack Obama raised more money in a single day that John McCain did for the whole month. Now that's a money bomb. The totals for June now show Obama raising $54 million while McCain clocked in with $22 million. So that's the income part of the budget, what about the expenses? Via Politico:The two candidates spent about the same amount of money in June--Obama spent $26 million and McCain spent $27 million. So McCain spent $5 million more than he had? Good thing he's got the RNC to help bankroll the campaign. What the two candidates ...
You Dropped a Bomb on Me!
By David Knowles - Politics DailyA money bomb, to be specific. Ron Paul has done it again. Having already set the one-day GOP fundraising record with his "money bomb" homage to Guy Fawkes that brought in $4.3 million dollars in a single day, Congressman Paul has now bested himself with a take of $6 million in symbolic commemoration of the Boston Tea Party. That means Paul has raised more money than any other political candidate in American history in a 24-hour period.What's astonishing is that the median donation making up this startling total is, according to the Paul campaign, $50. No calculator handy? That's 120,000 ...
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