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GOP-friendly super PACs can now focus money on Obama
Bob Moon Apr 11, 2012
Rick Santorum's exit from the GOP primary race means the super PAC money that kept his presidential bid alive will now likely be spent on anti-Obama attack ads.
Santorum calls it quits
Bob Moon Apr 10, 2012
Rick Santorum’s decision to bow out of the presidential race frees up millions of dollars that Republicans can now spend to fight Obama.
Campaign fundraising, pre- and post-primaries
Kai Ryssdal Apr 3, 2012
How history has led to how recent electoral caucuses are run, and the waning influence of the super PACs in the coming general elections.
Spamming the 2012 election; tablets for bonobos!
Jeff Horwich Apr 2, 2012
Web security firm Impermium is charting the role of social media spam in the 2012 race for president. And researchers in Iowa are about to find out what happens when you give apes tablet computers. (Planet of the Apes, anyone?)
Small donors elude Mitt Romney
David Gura Mar 27, 2012
In the battle for bucks, small donors are giving much more to Romney's GOP rivals, Rick Santorum and Newt Gingrich.
Behind the scenes of Marketplace's interview with Obama
Kai Ryssdal Mar 22, 2012
Yesterday, Marketplace host headed out to Nevada to meet with President Obama. You may have heard the interview, but what was Kai really thinking as he interviewed the man who runs the U.S.A.?
Big Obama donors missing in action
John Dimsdale Mar 20, 2012
President Barack Obama has raised just half of what he got from big donors at this point in his election campaign four years ago.
The economic lives of two blue-collar voters
Mitchell Hartman May 3, 2012
They differ on politics, but both see college as a way to help their kids do better than they have.
The importance of the female vote
David Brancaccio Mar 16, 2012
Both Mitt Romney and Barack Obama say they're going to pay attention to women voters in this election. What are the economic issues that might stand the chance of winning this significant number of voters?
Mitt Romney recalibrates campaign for longer haul
Eve Troeh Mar 16, 2012
The GOP presidential candidate is looking at having to raise more money to fight off rivals with staying power.
