ABSTRACT
Representatives who cast unpopular impeachment votes may have expected that impeachment would be a non-issue during the 2000 election. To examine the impact of unpopular impeachment votes on campaign fundraising, the chapter estimates regression models for both Political Action Committee (PAC) contributions and individual contributions made to House incumbents from each of the major parties. The political and institutional determinants of the total value of individual contributions present a somewhat different picture of the role of impeachment politics in campaign financing. Although Democratic challengers were able to boost their own campaign fundraising because of the unpopularity of the Clinton impeachment, the funding increase was far too small to overcome the general fundraising advantage enjoyed by Republican incumbants. As compensatory strategies, changes in roll call voting behavior and generating federal revenue or resources for one's district are distinct from campaign fundraising in a politically significant way.
