Word: mccains
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Part of it is surely style--his boyish smile and ham-it-up personality and dirty sense of humor--but the brunt of McCain's appeal seems to be his message...
...centerpiece of McCain's platform is campaign finance reform...
...wants to ban soft money contributions, which, he says, grant special interests the power to bankroll political parties and their agendas. Though critics counter that soft money donations are a form of protected political speech, McCain sees them as antithetical to democracy...
...argues that young voters are politically disenfranchised from the process because moneyed interests have too much say. This disengagement from the political process fosters civic disengagement as well because, in McCain's view, younger voters don't feel the government is responsive to them...
...Jonathan S. Freimann, 23, a student at the Harvard Law School, McCain's views are welcoming...