{"id":15119,"date":"2012-06-21T12:14:29","date_gmt":"2012-06-21T16:14:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=15119"},"modified":"2012-06-21T12:14:29","modified_gmt":"2012-06-21T16:14:29","slug":"obama-could-become-1st-incumbent-president-outspent-in-campaign","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=15119","title":{"rendered":"Obama Could Become 1st Incumbent President Outspent In Campaign"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>WASHINGTON\u00a0 \u2014 <strong>President Barack Obama\u2019s<\/strong> campaign said Wednesday it expects the president to become the first incumbent to be outspent by his opponent, outlining the potential for $1 billion in spending from Republican-leaning outside groups supporting <strong>Mitt Romney<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Campaign officials said they expected <strong>Romney<\/strong> and a collection of Republican-leaning super PACs would spend roughly $1.2 billion to help get him elected against a president who broke all fundraising records in 2008 by hauling in about $750 million. The officials briefed White House and other political reporters only on condition of anonymity in order to discuss internal campaign strategy and polling data.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Romney\u2019s<\/strong> campaign joined with the Republican National Committee to raise more than $76 million in May, outpacing <strong>Obama<\/strong> and the Democratic party, which raised a combined $60 million for the month. It was the first time that<strong> Obama<\/strong> has been outraised by an opponent since 2007.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Romney<\/strong> campaign spokeswoman<strong> Andrea Saul<\/strong> said the<strong> Obama<\/strong> campaign is \u201cused to moving the goal posts,\u201d citing projections that <strong>Obama\u2019s<\/strong> campaign might raise $1 billion.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WASHINGTON\u00a0 \u2014 President Barack Obama\u2019s campaign said Wednesday it expects the president to become the first incumbent to be outspent by his opponent, outlining the potential for $1 billion in spending from Republican-leaning outside groups supporting Mitt Romney. Campaign officials said they expected Romney and a collection of Republican-leaning super PACs would spend roughly $1.2 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":210,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pmpro_default_level":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15119","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-national-news","pmpro-has-access"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15119","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/210"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15119"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15119\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15119"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15119"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15119"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}