raisers president obama is planning to headline over the next two months. when it comes to campaigning for house and senate democrats. this ambitious schedule -- excuse me. that will take the president to democratic events in some big fund raising cities like new york, boston, miami, philadelphia, seattle, san francisco, l.a. and dallas, all will take place before the end of november. here's another one. 750,000. that's how many votes that it apparently typically takes to win a statewide election in texas. here's why. despite the fact there is 26 million people that live in the state, it generally only takes 750,000 to win a statewide republican primary. and since texas hasn't elected a democrat statewide to office in almost 20 years, you could argue that winning a gop primary in those 750,000 votes is tanemount to winning the general election to represent 26 million people. next up, $337. that's the average price of a