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Year of the Small Donor? Not for House Candidates

Judging from this year's presidential primaries, 2008 would seem to be the year of the small donor. But new fundraising numbers from this year's House races suggest just the opposite. Campaign finance experts say presidential candidates will always have an advantage with small donors, but many say candidates for Congress could be doing much better.

Edwards Backing Signals End of the Line for Clinton 05/14/08 A day after Sen. Barack Obama's poorest electoral performance to date among working class white voters, he won the backing of the man who fashions himself a champion of working class Democrats: former North Carolina Sen. John Edwards. "The Democratic voters in America have made their choice and so have I," Edwards told Obama supporters at a campaign rally in Grand Rapids, Mich.	Can Obama Become a Working Class Hero? 05/13/08 Perhaps the starkest example yet of the current divide within the Democratic Party came Tuesday in West Virginia where white working class voters cast their ballots for Sen. Hillary Clinton 72 percent to 23 percent over Sen. Barack Obama according to exit polls. Now, as Obama inches closer to officially clinching the Democratic nomination, the question becomes whether he can win in November without strong support among working class whites.
Fuel for the Anti-McCain Fire 05/13/08 With former Rep. Bob Barr's official entrance into the race for president, some staunch GOP strategists are dismissing talk of trouble for their man, arguing that outside "noise" and "hype" won't be costing Sen. John McCain the election come fall. But most strategists, including those within the McCain campaign, are keeping a close eye on Barr.	YouTube-Google Forum Is Challenge to Debate Commission 05/09/08 The YouTube-Google presidential forum set for this September could usher in a new era for citizen involvement in presidential debates. Or it could be a total flop. Either way, say Internet consultants, it offers a significant challenge to the previously undisputed masters of the debate process: The Commission on Presidential Debates.
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