Political money hunt: Bush in Ohio; Cheney in Wisconsin, Michigan.

By Lynn Sweet

President Bush and Vice President Cheney are out raising campaign money today on Midwest swings.

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Bush heads to Connecticut for a lunch to benefit the Connecticut Republican Party 2006 coordinated campaign committee and then heads Ohio for a fundraiser to collect checks for Sen. Mike DeWine (R-Ohio) and Ohio Republicans November election operation at a private home.

Cheney is in Milwaukee for to headline a lunch for to raise money for Wisconsin Republican November vote drive and then heads to East Grand Rapids, Mich. to keynote funders at an undisclosed home for GOP senate candidate Michael Bouchard and the Michigan Republican party.

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