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Bush campaign, super PAC raise $114.4M for presidential bid

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Bush campaign, super PAC raise $114.4M for presidential bid

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WASHINGTON (AP) — Republican presidential candidate Jeb Bush raised $114.4 million in the first six months of the year to fuel his White House ambitions, a historic amount that takes full advantage of the nation's evolving campaign finance laws.

No candidate for president has benefited from so much money so early in a campaign, and the total is sure to eclipse the fundraising of each of the other 16 major competitors for the Republican nomination.

"People have been willing to take a look, and he's overcome the people who have said, 'Not another Bush,'" said Bill Kunkler, a Chicago construction company executive and Bush donor. "People are looking at him as a guy who did it on his own, and who stands on his own."

The former Republican governor of Florida is taking a unique approach to a presidential bid, delegating many operations to an affiliated group that is free of limits on how much money a traditional campaign can raise from individual donors.

The affiliated group, a super PAC called Right to Rise, has been active since January. Run by a trusted Bush strategist, it said Thursday it had raised $103 million between January and the end of June.

Right to Rise is not subject to the limits placed on donors to Bush's campaign, and he spent the past six months traveling the country to attend fundraisers for the super PAC. The suggested donation at Right to Rise events was often as much as $100,000.
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And the season of giving continues.
And thanks to the electoral college most of that money is going to be concentrated in a handful of key swing states.

That will be one good thing about my move from Florida to Alabama.

The last election was awful where I was.

We were inundated with ads, push polls, etc. for months.

I thought it would never end
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And thanks to the electoral college most of that money is going to be concentrated in a handful of key swing states.

That will be one good thing about my move from Florida to Alabama.

The last election was awful where I was.

We were inundated with ads, push polls, etc. for months.

I thought it would never end
California being a sane Blue state, we never see much of that. But then I do not watch any TV nor listen to radio, so I am probably immune from these ads and am registered as an independent.

Interesting that the idiocy of the electoral system is only talked about soon after every election. Guess both parties must love it. What we have is an established election system and not true democracy where every vote counts.
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