And charitable fund raisers are learning that nobody can afford to overlook the rising influence of women.
For all these reasons fund raisers are learning the delicate art of going through a woman's purse.
Bush matched this effort by appearing as a guest star at carefully chosen fund raisers in key states.
In dealing with his most productive fund raisers, Gore can be as attentive as a social director at a vacation spa.
"No matter how much support you get from insiders, activists, fund raisers, you still gotta run the gauntlet, " says longtime Republican strategist Charles Black.
He questioned them about the political landscape, about the other candidates' strengths and weaknesses, about policy--the kind of intellectual stroking that fund raisers don't normally get.
NGOs have been told that they can't host events with more than 10 people, a stricture that extends even to annual charity fund raisers for the Persian New Year.
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And if later in the process they find themselves spread hither and thither in different states, talking to voters only on television, here they are real live politicians going about modern-day politics using old-fashioned tools: stump speeches, hokey fund raisers, dinners in diners.
The founder, Holly Safford, has built the company to be one of the elite catering companies in the Boston area- doing weddings, private events, and charity fund raisers such as the Boston Marathon, and the ring ceremonies for winning professional sports teams.
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Mr. Obama traveled to New York in late March for an event with fund-raisers from Wall Street and the fund industry.
Third, in the Travis County criminal investigation, three of DeLay's most trusted fund-raisers have already been indicted by a grand jury on charges of illegal fund raising and campaigning.
The company is working with other restaurants to plan fund-raisers for the families, Hodgson said.
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Along the way, he has become one of the top fund-raisers in the House.
For most of his career, the indiscipline of his private life delighted Republican fund-raisers.
The same book finds that Mr Obama has conducted more fund-raisers than previous presidents.
Bill Clinton made his disparaging remarks about Governor Bush's pedigree at one of his innumerable fund-raisers.
Still, much of the committee's growth has been in money raised in "road shows" -- out-of-town fund-raisers.
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Ms Noonan sometimes tries to be over-inventive (there is a rather tedious dream sequence about Hollywood fund-raisers).
But will regulators, who worry about Joe Sixpack being ripped off by unscrupulous fund-raisers, allow the crowd in?
Haggis and Rennard shared a house in Santa Monica, which soon became a hub for progressive political fund-raisers.
But it was DeLay who devised the plan that fund-raisers and political action committees worked from in 2002.
At least two of Britain's best university fund-raisers, at the London School of Economics and at Bristol University, are American imports.
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The mortgage meltdown and the rapid devaluation of mortgage-backed securities has forced many of Wall Street's stalwarts to launch aggressive global fund-raisers.
Several of the Republican guests also were top-level donors, fund-raisers and entertainers.
It is true that Mr Obama is no stranger to fancy fund-raisers.
One of the top fund-raisers is a figure out of the history books, Anna Chennault, widow of the famed Flying Tigers founder Gen.
If you are the inevitable candidate, operatives clamour to be on your team, fund-raisers stuff your coffers with gold and waverers swallow their doubts.
One of the fund-raisers, Katrina Olive of the Home Grown Crafts shop, started her appeal for clothes and money within hours of the fire.
October is Breast Cancer Awareness Month and organizations across the country are leading ad campaigns, walkathons and fund-raisers to bring attention to the disease.
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