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All three networks offered an update on Campaign 2008. CBS looked at fundraising; ABC and NBC at a possible third-party run by normally-Republican pro-life conservatives. Such a split might occur if the GOP nominates Rudolph Giuliani, whose position on social issues such as abortion are "at odds with the party's base," as NBC's David Gregory put it. Gregory noted that Giuliani makes the pragmatic horse-race argument that he is the lone Republican with a chance to defeat Hillary Rodham Clinton. The pro-lifers counter that it is "not worth electing someone with whom they hold such fundamental disagreements just so the Republican Party can continue to control the White House," according to ABC's Jake Tapper. Tapper added this spin about the leaders of the Christian conservative movement from the Giuliani Campaign: if their man does win the nomination, "it will call into question just how influential they truly are."
Armen Keteyian's Follow the Money report for CBS looked at bundlers, the 2,000-or-so elite fundraisers who package smaller donations from friends, family and business associates into lump sums. A study of Bundlers for Bush revealed that 27 of the current President's ambassadors and four Cabinet members had raised at least $100,000 for his campaigns. "When you unbundle the names," declared Keteyian, "you may well see the faces of the next administration."
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