Half of the $2 million that President Obama’s Super PAC brought in last month came from comedian Bill Maher, Politico reports.
The cash represents the first haul since Obama gave his blessing to the PAC and a big jump over the PAC's $59,000 take in January — a pittance that prompted Obama to reconsider his philosophical objections to super PACs. …
Priorities is still lagging, compared to the GOP PACs. In 2011, a pair of PACs organized by Karl Rove out-raised Burton’s group nearly tenfold.
"[W]e can't match it," Vice President Joe Biden said earlier this week of the $200 million to $500 million GOP-linked groups are expected to raise in 2012.