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The folks over at OpenSecrets.org have started posting their analysis of the February FEC filing of each presidential candidate.
Essentially, it looks like John McCain is taking it a bit easy. He still has to make sure that voters remember his name until November, but he doesn’t have to maintain the hot and heavy campaign pace that Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama have going — after all, McCain has the Republican nomination already in hand. In February, McCain raised $10,937,453 and managed to keep his spending down to $8,139,279. I’m betting …read more

Remember those bad old days when John McCain was broke and barely holding on? You know, the middle of 2007? Well, during his little financial crisis, McCain signed up for public financing in order to stay afloat. It came in handy — John McCain looks like the anointed Republican nominee despite some lingering policy issues with the right. These days, he’s doing well enough that he’s getting plenty of monetary support, to the point that he’s bumping up against legal limits imposed by that public money McCain accepted not so long ago.
The FEC wants to have some words with the …read more