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Presidential Exploratory CommitteesClick here for the Guide's US Presidential Election SectionAn Exploratory Committee is an organization established to help determine whether a potential candidate should run for an elected office.Ron Elving described the use of Exploratory Committees in his article, Declaring for President is a Dance of Seven Veils, which aired on National Public Radio on December 5, 2006. He wrote: The exploratory committee has been around for decades, and technically it creates a legal shell for a candidate who expects to spend more than $5,000 while contemplating an actual run. Under the rules, exploratory money may be raised without the full disclosure of sources required of true candidates. Only when the candidate drops the exploratory label does the full responsibility of transparency apply.
Candidates use an exploratory committee as not only a transitional phase for their bookkeeping but as an extra claim on media attention. Some
of the most skillful handlers like to leak word that their candidate is testing the waters, then leak word that he or she is thinking about
forming an exploratory committee. Additional "news" can be made when the same candidate actually forms such a committee and registers with the
Federal Election Commission. Yet a fourth round of attention may be generated when the word exploratory gets dropped from the committee filing.
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