This means that President Bill Clinton and Hillary Rodham Clinton will host only 15 DNC-financed holiday galas this year, down from 25 last time around.
They lost and in retaliation made the candidates sign a pledge to them -- not the DNC -- to not campaign there and not have their names on the ballot.
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Lender said he was inspired to dedicate his fund-raising skills to the DNC -- even though he considers the explosion of political money "obscene"--because of Lieberman's competency and commitment to the country, as well as his status as the first Jew on a national ticket.
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Lieberman himself has headlined a steady stream of recent DNC fund-raising events organized and attended predominantly by Jews.
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As the most powerful Democrat in the country and the de facto leader of the party, Clinton's numerous meetings with former DNC fund-raiser John Huang, his ties to the Riady family, and the maze of Southeast Asian businesses anchored in Little Rock, Ark.
In a related development, an ABC News survey shows a clear majority of Americans supports appointment of a special prosecutor to investigate the DNC's fund-raising activities.
Legal restrictions probably will prohibit use of the campaign's contact lists directly by Obama's White House, but turning the lists over to a Kaine-helmed DNC is still an option.
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Though the only audience Kirshner says he's concerned with is inside the convention hall--he's quick to point out he's employed by the DNC, rather than a broadcast network--he's optimistic about this year's television ratings given all of the interest that the primary race garnered.
Attorney General Janet Reno may yet appoint an independent counsel to look into the DNC's financial fund-raising overseas.
The DNC spots were funded with so-called "soft money" -- funds intended for party-building or get-out-the-vote drives, not for specific campaigns.
And other Democrats, with the exception of Debbie Wasserman-Shultz, the DNC chairwoman, have tended to downplay the importance of the vote.
To stop Bush from catching fire, Kerry will need to be as successful as the Republicans were during the DNC in getting a strong counter-message into local as well as national media.
Joe Lieberman endorse Republican nominee John McCain Tuesday night, down 17% from the second night of the DNC, when Obama's rival-turned-supporter Hillary Clinton took the stage.
Other subpoenas issued by the Senate committee including those for bank records to track DNC donations raised at a controversial fund-raiser at a Buddhist temple in California last spring.
So he persuaded the DNC to schedule an Oct. 11 fund-raising luncheon in Los Angeles so eager donors could meet Lieberman, and he resumed dialing for dollars.
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All of this as the television ratings sag: Only 15.5 million viewers on average tuned in to the DNC in 2004, down 24% from 1992--the highest viewership since 1984--according to Nielsen Media Research.
And can you -- yesterday, Congresswoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz, the DNC Chairwoman, said that Democrats now own the economy.
Carey has said he did not know about any plan to use the DNC as a conduit to channel contributions from Democrats to his re-election campaign last year.
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And the breadth of Obama's contacts also has the potential to put to rest a division within Democratic ranks between the likes of former DNC Chairman Howard Dean, who advocated pursuing an ambitious "50-state strategy, " and those who wanted to focus on historically battleground states.
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The DNC ad buy is an indication that the White House understands the key health-care battle will occur in the Senate, not the House.
Indeed, one of the little-noticed reasons that Kerry did not get a bigger bounce from the DNC was that day after day and night after night, Republicans got out their message into both national and local media: that he was avoiding a liberal Senate record and is a waffler.
To be fair, the DNC did go through a lengthy review process of the primary calendar and warned every state that only four -- Iowa, New Hampshire, Nevada and South Carolina -- would be allowed to hold primaries before Super Tuesday.
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