Article: Obama-McCain race to test candidates' fund-raising pledges

Michael Luo and Mike McIntire The New York Times Media Group
International Herald Tribune
05-20-2008
Obama-McCain race to test candidates' fund-raising pledges
Byline: Michael Luo and Mike McIntire The New York Times Media Group
Edition: 1
Section: NEWS

Pivoting toward the general election, Senator Barack Obama, Democrat of Illinois, is turning again to his history-making fund- raising machine, which helped to anoint him as a contender against Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton, Democrat of New York, and then became a potent weapon in their battle for the Democratic nomination.

To confront the Obama juggernaut, Senator John McCain, Republican of Arizona, whose fund-raising has badly trailed that ...