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Money raised is applied for the salaries of non-volunteers in the campaign, transportation, campaign materials, media advertisements and other contingencies. Under United States law, officially declared candidates are required to file campaign finance details with the Federal Elections Commission (FEC) at the end of every calendar month or quarter.
A "Vote Blue" T-shirt seen at a Philadelphia Democratic campaign rally in September 2018. - Mark Makela/Getty Images From there, the color associations became shorthand for ideological positions.
From New York to California, Democrats find they are having to spend big in the midterms homestretch to defend incumbents in districts Biden won two years ago. Democrats ramp up spending in blue ...
The "blue wall" is a term coined in 2009 in the political culture of the United States to refer to the dozen-or-so states (along with Washington, D.C.) that reliably "voted blue" i.e. for the Democratic Party in the six consecutive presidential elections from 1992 to 2012. This trend suggested a fundamental dominance in presidential politics ...
Campaign finance laws in the United States have been a contentious political issue since the early days of the union. The most recent major federal law affecting campaign finance was the Bipartisan Campaign Reform Act (BCRA) of 2002, also known as " McCain - Feingold ".
Democrats up and down the ballot have long relied on NGP VAN to run their campaigns. Now, consultants and former employees are concerned that repeated layoffs will lead to problems with the party ...
In the 2005–2006 campaign, the site raised $17 million for 1500 Democratic candidates, with $15.5 million going to congressional campaigns. By August 2007, the site had raised $25.5 million. [23] In 2016, ActBlue took in nearly $800 million in small-dollar donations. [24]
Political observers latched on to this association, which resulted from the use of red for Republican victories and blue for Democratic victories on the display map of a television network. As of November 2012, maps for presidential elections produced by the U.S. government also use blue for Democrats and red for Republicans. [104]