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...These guys hate McCain," says TIME congressional correspondent John Dickerson. "They think he?s sanctimonious, and their seats are so safe that they risk absolutely nothing with a free walloping." And this time the maverick brought it on himself. "McCain tripped up," says Dickerson. "By bringing up specific pork barrel projects ?- which are a problem but not nearly as serious as, say, a big tax break to an industry that contributes millions to a party ? his rhetoric outstripped the larger, valid point he?s trying to make. So they jumped...
...possible, so as to give no one an easy excuse. They?ve shorn the bill of its amendments and put it forth as purely a soft-money ban, up or down ? an approach that has apparently won one convert, Sam Brownback of Kansas. But even if another seven relent, Dickerson says the Democrats ?- who have been unanimously and gleefully in support of the bill for years ?- will mysteriously find some reason why it?s no longer palatable...
...There are a lot of phony actors in this thing," says Dickerson. "A lot of the Democrats don?t want a soft-money ban any more than the Republicans do. They just want the issue." Especially now that Democrats are now raising just as much soft money as Republicans ?- and it constitutes a bigger portion of their annual fund-raising haul. So here?s a Congress 101 for you: When New Jersey Democrat Bob Torricelli says...
...lying. "Torricelli?s the head Democratic fund-raiser in the Senate," says Dickerson. "He doesn?t want this law. But if this thing starts to get close, you?re going to hear a lot of Democrats say very similar things: that stripped down, the bill suddenly doesn?t do enough...
...down," says Dickerson. "It?ll go down, and it?ll be good for McCain?s campaign." But probably not good enough ? $9.3 million, which was McCain?s hard-money fund-raising total as of Friday, just doesn?t buy as many votes as it used...