The fund-raising gap has widened as the Nov.
The intensifying nominating fight has helped narrow the grass-roots fund-raising gap between the Republican field and Mr. Obama.
The fund-raising gap also has not dissuaded the legions of young programmers hoping to cash in on the current technology frenzy.
Non-banks with seeding funds, such as Blackstone, a private-equity firm, and Citadel, a hedge fund, may fill some of the fund-raising gap.
But he faced practical -- and mundane -- obstacles as well, like a big fund-raising gap with Ms. Gillibrand and little time to close it.
Our anonymous friend not only inspired the subject matter of the work, but also ended up closing the fund-raising gap by contributing half of the commissioning fee.
As for the governor's race, Mr. Paladino's announcement, which was expected, was bad news for Mr. Lazio, who faces a steep fund-raising gap with both Mr. Cuomo and Mr. Paladino.
Facing a sour economy and a big fund-raising gap, the boys and girls in Chicago have gambled everything on knocking out Romney early, or leaving him so bloodied that he can't recover.
His fame will also be called upon to bridge a likely fund-raising gap: Both Ms. Whitman and Mr. Poizner have large personal fortunes and have donated heavily to their own campaigns.
The developments in the Northeast are welcome news to national Republican leaders in Washington at a time when House Republicans Campaign Committeee is confronting an enormous fund-raising gap with its Democratic counterpart.
WASHINGTON, Nov. 25 — Confronting an enormous fund-raising gap with Democrats, Republican Party officials are aggressively recruiting wealthy candidates who can spend large sums of their own money to finance their Congressional races, party officials say.
