Word: campaign
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...Senate, McCain was one of few Republicans to support reform legislation. Last February, the McCain-Feingold campaign reform bill failed after supporters fell nine votes short of the 60 votes need to end a Republican-led filibuster...
Last September, after the House passed a similar piece of campaign finance reform legislation, the Shays-Meehan bill, McCain, along with Sen. Russell Feingold (D-Wis.) tried again to pass their legislation. For a second time, the bill failed, by a vote of 52-48, 8 votes short breaking the filibuster led by Senate Majority Leader Trent Lott (R-Miss...
...spite of opposition to campaign finance from many leading Republicans politicians, the Public Campaign poll showed that 75 percent of the voters in New Hampshire supported the McCain-Feingold legislation and opposition to the bill among voters in states surveyed did not rise above 20 percent...
McCain will still face an uphill battle making campaign finance reform a winning issue in the primaries...
...some campaign finance reform supporters say that ultimately, it will take more extensive legislation than the likes of the McCain-Feingold bill to make a substantial difference in the way elections...