This one, he admits, is a shoestring campaign.

You could even make a point of running a shoestring campaign against the multimillion-dollar Hillary leviathan.

Mr. Marlin is running a shoestring campaign on about $500,000 (compared to $8 million for each of his rivals).

Political consultants are more accustomed to toiling for low wages on shoestring campaigns and supplementing campaign work with other jobs.

He has been running a shoestring campaign in Connecticut and plans to spend only about $5,000, but is considering buying time for commercials.

Mr. Gubash, 41, is running a shoestring campaign for the State Senate in Minnesota.

Several news executives said Mr. Brown's shoestring campaign had simply been hard to reach throughout the primaries.

By Republican standards, she is running a shoestring campaign, having raised less than $200,000 this year.

After that, Mr. Buchanan is to fly his shoestring campaign to South Carolina, for the March 2 primary.

Early in the campaign, Mr. Morales received national media attention by waging a shoestring campaign from a pickup truck.