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With the McCain-Feingold campaign finance reform bill finally up for debate in the Senate next week, the nation's attention has turned once more to soft money. Like any salient Washington "hot topic," the question of who can donate how much to political campaigns is busy making the Sunday morning talk-show rounds, where the pundits explain the basics: that "soft money" consists of unregulated donations to political parties, funds that individuals and organizations can contribute in unlimited amounts to the party of their choice, provided that the party does not then earmark that money to promote specific candidates...
...with John McCain and Russ Feingold's soft-money ban finally seeing the light of full Senate debate next week, the rumblings of sudden discontent among the party formerly in McCain's corner is reaching a fever pitch...
...windmill McCain enjoyed unanimous Democratic support. This year, with the Senate at 50-50 and McCain still enjoying some political pop from his equally quixotic presidential run, McConnell and Trent Lott have had to cut a deal with Bush's No. 1 saddle burr and give McCain-Feingold its due chance at becoming...
...McCain blithely maintains that he and Feingold "do not think this is a perfect bill," and that some vigorous debate and the right amendments can produce some form of reform that will win the necessary supporters from both sides of the aisle...
...people raised concerns," one Democratic senator told CNN of an intra-party discussion of the bill Tuesday. "The only one who spoke out in support of McCain-Feingold was Russ Feingold...