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...special three-judge panel struck down several key provisions of the landmark Bipartisan Campaign Finance Reform Act. The act, popularly known as McCain-Feingold, closes loopholes in existing laws that allow wealthy special interest groups to spend unlimited sums of money on political candidates. McCain-Feingold is an important step towards a more democratic political process, where the overwhelming influence of special interest money is not allowed to drown out the voices of voters. The Supreme Court should overturn the panel’s wrongheaded ruling...
...supported their views. And since campaigns have grown more expensive over the years, candidates are more dependent than ever on large donations. Those who oppose wealthy special interests can find themselves unable to run a viable campaign, and voters are denied a meaningful choice at the ballot box. McCain-Feingold attempted to address the problem, but the panel’s ruling will preserve the dangerous status...
...Priscilla Owen, labeled ultraconservative by Democrats. By sticking with his core supporters on the issues they care most about, Bush has given himself leeway to disappoint them on what Norquist calls "second-and third-tier issues." That's what he did last year when he signed the McCain-Feingold campaign finance-reform bill, which conservatives despised. "Were we unhappy?" asks Norquist. "Yes. But I vote on taxes. Were gun owners unhappy? Yes. But they vote on guns...
Money will matter more than ever in 2004. The McCain-Feingold Campaign Finance Reform Act means that soft money is out and donors are limited to $25,000 gifts to the party, well below the typical $100,000 from high rollers in the '90s. Despite his implausible spinning following the election, McAuliffe looks destined to stay on as D.N.C. head because no one else in the party can approach his skill at opening up checkbooks. To raise $100 million in hard money, McAuliffe says he will borrow a Bush campaign tactic and ask fat cats to collect...
...intelligence community” where he has rubbed elbows with the likes of Gore, Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld, Secretary of State Colin Powell, Sen. Edward M. “Ted” Kennedy ’54-’56 (D-Mass.) and Sen. Russell Feingold...