The Bank on the Road to the White House
Or, Where Campaign Donations Go When the Candidate Drops Out
With a primary or caucus nearly every week, the presidential field is thinning – but the candidates’ penny banks are nowhere near empty. According to the Center for Responsive Politics, a nonpartisan campaign finance watchdog group, by the end of September, the 2008 presidential candidates set aside over $33.6 million for the general election. But that’s a race only two of them will see; the rest will be left to pack up their offices, kiss...
