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Paul Simon: 50 Ways to Donate to Kerry Longtime Democrat Paul Simon — the singer, not the late senator — is pitching in for John Kerry. No, he's not slated to perform at either the Bette Midler and friends show at Radio City or the Barbra Streisand event in Los Angeles. Simon and wife Edie Brickell are going one better. They're having strangers to their house. Simon and Brickell, who are not very public people, have agreed to give a Kerry fund-raiser at their beautiful country home near Greenwich, Conn., one week from today. The minimum contribution asked for on...

After President Bush took the stage during an October fundraiser in Riverside, the crowd cheered his announcement that the former citrus town had raised more than $1 million to keep him in the White House. After all, that was on par with the money Bush collected at a fundraiser in affluent Orange County two months earlier. Orange County still reigns as Southern California's Republican stronghold when it comes to generating votes and campaign money for GOP candidates. But the Inland Empire, with its unbridled growth in population and registered voters, is gaining on its westward neighbor and could take over...