Today’s installment of campaign-related news items that wouldn’t generate a post of their own, but may be of interest to political observers:<\/p>\n
* Former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney (R) found a clever, and apparently, legal way to collect more than the legal limit<\/a> for presidential candidates’ campaign donors. Right now, the most an individual can give a candidate is $2,300 per election. Romney, meanwhile, has 16 donors who were able to contribute more than $100,000. The key was finding a gap between federal and state law: “While most states limit political donations, about a dozen don’t. Mr. Romney’s political team set up fund-raising committees in three of those: Michigan, Iowa and Alabama. During that time, his political action committees raised $7 million.”<\/p>\n * Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison (R-Texas) is already getting the word out that she’d like to be considered<\/a> as the GOP’s running mate in 2008. “If our party’s nominee called me and said we are putting everything in the grid, and we think you are the best person, would I say no? I can’t imagine that I would say no,” she said. Hutchison insisted, however, that she wasn’t “promoting” herself for the job.<\/p>\n * John Edwards appeared at Wake Forest University yesterday in North Carolina and was asked by an audience member why he was a better candidate than Barack Obama. “Experience,” Edwards responded<\/a>. “I’ve been through a presidential campaign.”<\/p>\n * An extremely early Quinnipiac poll<\/a> out of Ohio today shows Hillary Clinton looking quite strong against the GOP’s top contender in hypothetical general-election match-ups. Clinton leads McCain by four (46% to 42%), Giuliani by three (46% to 43%), and Romney by 21 (52% to 31%).<\/p>\n * And in several key House races in ’08, expect a series of rematches of recently defeated Republicans. Former Rep. Jeb Bradley<\/a> (R-N.H.), Joe Negron<\/a> (R-Fla.), and former Rep. Jim Ryun<\/a> (R-Kan.) all said yesterday that they’ll run again next year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Today’s installment of campaign-related news items that wouldn’t generate a post of their own, but may be of interest to political observers: * Former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney (R) found a clever, and apparently, legal way to collect more than the legal limit for presidential candidates’ campaign donors. Right now, the most an individual can […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9774","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9774","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9774"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9774\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9774"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9774"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9774"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}