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Mitt Romney is raising money in Las Vegas, where he'll meet with casino mogul Sheldon Adelson, who bankrolled a pro-Gingrich group.

Tom Donohue, president of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, indicated Monday that reports that the business group would spend $50 million on the 2012 elections are too low.

Twenty-two states and the District of Columbia are backing Montana in its fight to prevent the U.S. Supreme Court's 2010 Citizens United decision from being used to strike down state laws restricting corporate campaign spending.

A little political trivia: President Obama says the photo of him on a political poster with the word HOPE comes from an event in which he is sitting next to George Clooney. "We struck up a friendship," Obama told Hollywood donors gathered at Clooney's house last night. "And this is the first time that George Clooney has ever been photo-shopped out of a picture.

For the first time since 1976, neither major party presidential candidate will be taking taxpayer money to finance his campaign.

A pro-Romney super PAC received $400,000 from a West Palm Beach, Fla., company that has been listed as inactive in state since March 2011.

The traditional big sources of campaign funds are not delivering for President Obama’s campaign as they did four years ago, leaving the president to rely much more on grass-roots support.

Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney raised nearly $12.6 million in March, the best fundraising month of campaign.

Crossroads GPS, a conservative nonprofit group that is one of the most prominent critics of President Obama, raised nearly $77 million in its first 19 months from a small cadre of secret donors, including two dozen who wrote checks of $1 million and more.

In a talk with Florida donors, he singles out the Housing and Education departments but says he isn't ready to share specifics with voters. When President Obama told a Russian leader that he could be "more flexible" after the election — during what he thought was a private conversation — Mitt Romney came down like a hammer.