According to The Washington Post, Mr. Obama is "struggling to draw in big-dollar donations, with half as many people writing large checks to his campaign than at this point four years ago".
The current crop of books looks promising if you're into thrillers and fantasy and hopefully they'll continue these bundles with bigger names to draw in some more donations.
Then you post it on the Web and pray that it goes viral, gets mentioned on the cable talk shows and draws in enough donations to put the thing on TV.
Now the party's leading candidates are making the Internet increasingly central to their campaigns, capitalizing on early interest in the contest by shoring up efforts to draw in voters and their donations through Web sites.
Mr. Obama, who turned 51, is saving the big-time public celebrations for next weekend in his hometown in Chicago, when, this being an election year and him being a politician, his campaign plans to draw in a bunch of donations for the occasion.
This means finding something of interest in the cemetery that will give you media coverage and draw in more interest and donations to the cause.
A barrage of Republican Party fundraising emails bearing Trump's name and likeness has helped draw in a steady stream of donations of less than $200, which make up more than 40percentt of the RNC's fundraising this entire cycle.
The high-velocity churn drew $9 million in donations, the campaign's biggest single-day money haul of the year.
Last month they launched the first phase of an ambitious fund-raising plan, drawing $50,000 in donations from local doctors and $15,000 from other residents.
The party has won a string of off-year legislative contests that flew below the national radar, but failed in some high-profile races, most notably a congressional battle in the outskirts of Atlanta that, as in Virginia, drew millions in donations and an outpouring of volunteers.
Senator John McCain's presidential campaign raised at least $21.5 million in May — its best fund-raising month yet — in a sign that its effort to draw donations in tandem with the Republican National Committee is yielding dividends.
