Fundraising

Despite a record-setting month for Democrats, Republicans hold a marginal advantage heading into the last two months of the campaign.

The AFL-CIO is expanding a program that will allow volunteers to direct where the union's super-PAC spends its money.  

Officials with the labor federation told reporters that after an initial soft launch earlier this year, RePurpose will be active in seven battleground states, with plans to expand it further. The program allows volunteers to earn points by phone-banking or canvassing for the labor federation’s chosen candidates and then redeem those points for activism paid for by the AFL-CIO’s super-PAC, Workers’ Voice.

AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka said volunteers’ political field work won’t just be rewarded with “a key chain or a t-shirt” anymore. 

“They will give our grassroots participants the power to set the agenda of Workers’ Voice. Activists will redeem their points to direct our work,” Trumka said. “Every volunteer that participates in the RePurpose program now effectively becomes the political director of Workers’ Voice.”

It's the third consecutive month Romney has raised more than $100 million, and his largest monthly haul to date.

"We did it! Over 700,000 grassroots donations this week—thank you," said a tweet from Obama's account.

Former Rep. Gabrielle Giffords (D-Ariz.), currently recovering from wounds she received during a shooting last year, is launching a political action committee to back Democratic candidates that "share Gabby and Mark [Gifford]’s vision of a better future for America," according to a release.

The highest-ranking elected Republican has traveled 9,126 miles and held 47 events over the last 23 days.

"I would far rather have a setting where we had both agreed to the federal spending limits," said Romney.

An Irish-American political action committee will launch the McBLACKPAC super-PAC at the Democratic convention in Charlotte.

Romney's campaign has used big headline news to drive donations, raising $4.6M a day after the high court's healthcare ruling.

Romney’s selection of Rep. Paul Ryan (R-Wis.) as his running mate has energized donors over the last 24 hours.

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