1.  All three candidates have raised a tidy sum of money to dole out to lawmakers and new recruits.

2.  As amended Thursday, the bill lets such candidates raise more money privately, but does not provide for additional public money.

3.  At the same time, it is hard for even the best-liked rich candidates to raise money from supporters when they have so much of their own.

4.  Barnes said it becomes particularly hard for a candidate to raise money after defeats in Iowa and New Hampshire.

5.  Both initiatives call for extensive public money to pay for political campaigns, to be awarded after the candidates have raised modest sums on their own.

6.  A look at how much money has been raised by candidates for House races in central Illinois.

7.  Alex Castellanos, a Republican media consultant, said that even if paid advertising were curtailed, candidates would still raise money to pay people like him.

8.  But every candidate raises his or her own money nowadays, and it comes not only from fat cats but from little cats, too.

9.  But Birmingham and Finneran rewrote it, allowing candidates to raise and spend as much money as they want up until the last six months of an election year.

10.  But in the fall presidential elections, candidates do not raise money from the public.