AP offers this report, which begins: “Eight political watchdog groups on Wednesday asked Sens. John McCain and Barack Obama to disclose more about the fundraising for their presidential campaigns, including new details about those fundraisers who “bundle” tens of thousands of dollars.” The press release is here.
Let me join in this call. I’ve been writing a paper on the transformation of the U.S. system for financing presidential elections, and I was unpleasantly surprised by how much less information about bundling is being released by the campaigns in 2008 compared to 2004.