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Campaigns shatter spending records

The crowded field of 2016 presidential candidates spent $48 million through the first half of the year — nearly twice as much as their counterparts had at this point in the 2012 cycle — reflecting the new realities of fast, expensive campaign launches.

In Iowa, Lincoln Chafee says Sanders is complicating campaign

Longshot candidate Lincoln Chafee said that when he decided to run for president he wasn’t counting on the enthusiasm that has built up around fellow underdog Bernie Sanders.

“The recent rise of Bernie Sanders,” wrote Vox’s Jonathan Allen last week, “points as much to [Hillary] Clinton’s vulnerability as Sanders’s strength.” Allen went on to argue that Joe Biden should run for president. “The Sanders surge shows that Democratic activists want an alternative to Clinton,” he explained.

Big arenas, plenty of bottled water — the lifeblood of the Sanders campaign

Aides to Sen. Bernie Sanders thought they had found the perfect place for his rally in Portland, Maine: a glass-enclosed building on the waterfront that could hold up to 700 people.

Campaign Finance Reports Offer Clues to Campaign

Wednesday was the filing deadline for the 2016 presidential candidates to reveal their fundraising and spending details, and while the overall numbers are fairly easy to digest and understand (Texas Sen. Ted Cruz and former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton lead their respective parties’ contenders in money raised, for example), there are lots of details buried in each report that will take a few days for the media to find and report on their likely meaning for the campaign.

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Republican field walloping Hillary Clinton in money race

Hillary Clinton, the dominant front-runner in the Democratic field, is facing a massive pile of money on the Republican side, with early numbers showing that the GOP-ers have outraised Clinton roughly four times over.

Bernie Sanders is more likely to sport a rumpled suit than a hoodie, has no affinity for geeking out on the gadgets of Silicon Valley and may prefer the company of protesters over programmers — yet no candidate running for president is more successfully leveraging technology.