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...more. Powerful constituents can also exceed the per-candidate spending limits through a type of earmarking called "tallying," which routes their big checks to the party and then back to their candidate of choice. The Washington Post found memos from the campaign of Senator Carl Levin, a Michigan Democrat, that openly asked donors to tally their extra contributions to benefit his campaign. One letter from Levin soliciting a tallied contribution from the Chrysler Corp.'s PAC in 1995 called it "crucial to my re-election effort next year...
...years later, liberal groups are imitating conservatives with a vengeance. Unionists, environmentalists and pro-choice activists rehearsed earlier this year in Oregon's special election; working in tandem, they put Democrat Ron Wyden into the Senate seat held for 26 years by Bob Packwood. Now liberal groups like these dominate the independent-expenditures game, directing their efforts against the House G.O.P.'s most vulnerable faction, its 73-member freshman class. Philadelphia's Annenberg School for Communication has cataloged 19 separate organizations that have taken to the airwaves this year; 60% of their messages have supported Democrats. "If the Democrats take...
...environmental community has its own ambitious campaign of sneak attacks. The League of Conservation Voters has devoted its $1.5 million kitty to defeat just 12 lawmakers (11 Republicans and one Democrat) whom the organization has called "the Dirty Dozen." The Sierra Club has targeted 30 races with a million-dollar effort, including voter guides (on recycled paper) that list incumbent Republicans who allegedly have damaged the ecosystems of their own districts...
...friend Kemp was "concerned too much about being 'nice' and not enough about winning." Bill Kristol, editor of the conservative Weekly Standard, complained that "if you came down from Mars and saw this debate, you might think that Al Gore was a moderate Republican...and Jack Kemp was the Democrat." Even Dole, in an interview with ABC's Ted Koppel, cracked that Kemp and Gore got along so famously that "it looked like a fraternity picnic there for a while...
...Democrats like Bentsen have another problem. Special elections, and particularly one in the Christmas season of a year when many voters are disconnected from the campaign, usually favor the superior organizational skills of Republicans. "We'll have to hire Greyhound buses to get people to the polls," sighs Democrat Tony Proffitt, a Texas political operative...