Tag Archives: presidential campaign 2008

Overseas Fundraising Legal?

Posted on March 25, 2008

Q: Is it legal for candidates to raise funds overseas for a presidential race? A: Yes, but they can’t legally accept donations from individuals who are neither U.S. citizens nor permanent U.S. residents.

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Republican Candidates Debate

Posted on May 4, 2007 , Updated on May 7, 2007 , Corrected on May 6, 2007

Summary Ten Republican candidates for president debated at the Reagan Library in California, the first GOP debate of the 2008 campaign. Here and there we found stumbles, spin and exaggerations, just as we did at the Democratic debate a week earlier. Giuliani claimed that adoptions shot up 65 to 70 …
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Democratic Candidates Debate

Posted on April 27, 2007

Summary Eight Democratic candidates debated in South Carolina. We found some minor stumbles. Sen. Barack Obama of Illinois, explaining his call to show compassion for Palestinians, put a spin on the remark that differs from the way it was originally reported by an Iowa newspaper. Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton of …
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