Fundraising

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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Romney’s campaign is reaping a financial boost from the selection of Rep. Paul Ryan (R-Wis.) as running mate.

An email from the DCCC blasted Ryan as "the architect of the Republican plan to kil Medicare."

The figure marks the second straight month that Romney has topped $100 million.

Former Vice President Al Gore warned of the dangers of the "extremist fringe" of the Republican Party winning control of Congress and the White House.

Gore's warnings came in a Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee fundraising email sent out Monday.

"The last thing we want is the Republican Party — a party that’s been hijacked by an extremist fringe — to win the White House and tighten its grip on Congress," Gore writes. "That would spell disaster for our economy and our environment."
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An outside spending group has asked the FEC to soften the line dividing super-PACs from fundraising committees of federal candidates.

The joke might be over.

Comedian Stephen Colbert's super-PAC raised only $5,690 in June, the second straight month that the organization brought in less than five figures. The totals pale in comparison to the committee's performance last year, when the group raised more than $825,000.

Colbert began the organization as a gag to illustrate how the American campaign finance system actually worked, encouraging donations from his supporters and then mounting a faux-presidential run during the Republican primaries.

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Priorities USA was outpaced in fundraising by pro-Romney super-PACs, but spent close to $8 million against the GOP candidate.

An Obama email says he could be the "first president in modern history to be outspent in his reelection campaign.”

Casino mogul and conservative donor Sheldon Adelson is threatening to sue the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee (DCCC) for libel.