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Chris Jackson has spent most of the last two years in politics. For eight months, he was a field organizer for the Dean campaign in New Hampshire. Then, for the general election, he took a job helping America Votes—a consortium of progressive 527s including America Coming Together, the Sierra Club and the Service Employees International Union—coordinate their operation...
...hindsight--DEAR GOD! RUN FOR YOUR LIFE!!-- we clearly relied too much on 527s...
...which the parties didn't run the whole party. There were many weeks this year when the traditional G.O.P. and Democratic campaign operations--for that matter, even the candidates themselves--seemed less important than the swarming field of outside players who gave this election season its unusual intensity. Bloggers, 527s, get-out-the-vote teams--these are the people who made the campaign a free-for-all, in the best and the worst senses of the phrase. The candidates churned out position papers that not many people read. But Michael Moore made a movie that a lot of people...
...claim that people who raised concerns that the Patriot Act was a threat to liberty were aiding terrorists. Before Campaign '04 was over, Soros had become one of the largest political contributors in U.S. history, spending about $27 million, most of it channeled to the independent partisan groups called 527s--all of it aimed against Bush. As it turned out, all was for naught. So, what does Soros do now? "I think I go into a monastery," he jokes. "I need to regroup." Then he adds pointedly, "But one doesn't want to stay in a monastery forever...
Although McCain-Feingold has overcome its own constitutional challenges, it proved less able to meet the challenges of this past election cycle. Through the 527s, “bundled” contributions and other legal loopholes, special interest money still managed to do what special interest money does best: finding its way into campaigns as it always has. Money in politics is like water streaming down a hill—no matter how many obstacles you throw in its path, it still manages to get where it’s going...