The phrase "advance campaign" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to refer to a campaign that is planned or executed ahead of time, often in a marketing or strategic context.
Example: "The marketing team launched an advance campaign to promote the new product before its official release."
Alternatives: "preliminary campaign" or "pre-launch campaign".
WASHINGTON — Senate Democrats failed Thursday to advance campaign finance legislation that would force businesses, unions and others to disclose how they were spending money in political campaigns and where they were getting it.
Efforts to enact the annual military policy bill hit a new snag as House Republicans insisted on using that legislation to advance campaign finance restrictions on independent advocacy groups.
Among these groups, the pioneer of this electoral strategy is adjusting its tactics to advance campaign finance reform across the country.
UPDATE: Rep. Eric Cantor (R-Va)., the House Minority Whip, jumped on Van Hollen's remarks hours after they were posted, accusing the Maryland Democrat of using the BP disaster to advance campaign finance legislation.
Hawaii's possible update to its public financing system comes as a number of states move to advance campaign finance reforms, and after some of the most expensive and least transparent elections in recent history.
"There had been an explosion in the use of data, all structured to advance campaigns," Bonica says.
Though foremost a form of support to people in isolation, the project has also helped advance campaigns to abolish solitary confinement.
At the Obama 2012 campaign headquarters in Chicago, inside a room nicknamed "the Cave," a team of data analytics experts helped President Obama build the most technologically advanced campaign in American history.
Van Hollen, of course, was not using the tragedy in the Gulf as a means of advancing campaign finance reform.
He was accused of using $1.5 million that was intended to promote the state lottery to advance his campaign prospects.
Councilman Cory Booker failed to advance a campaign reform measure in the Newark City Council this week that would have sharply limited contributions by those doing business with the city.
