Word: rnc
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...McCain-Feingold is content to ban soft money ? hard money, after all, is how Iron John got his $6.1 million. Soft money, contributed by the bushel to the party and distributed as the DNC and RNC see fit, doesn't come into play until the primaries are over. For McCain, it is plenty evil enough. For Clinton and Gore, soft money was the Buddhist monks and the Lincoln bedroom. For the Republicans, it is the NRA and Big Tobacco ? and the source of Mitch McConnell's power. For a lonely maverick on Capitol Hill, it is the source...
WASHINGTON: Depending on your outlook, Republicans have either started hitting below the belt or stopped ignoring the elephant in the room. Either way, the blitz of GOP attack ads launched in key districts Tuesday night -- with the RNC?s stamp of approval ?- means an end to the tacit agreement between the parties that the Lewinsky affair would not play a large role in the fall campaign. One commercial features two women discussing whether it?s "OK to lie"; another asks if voters should "reward not telling the truth"; a third uses the video, but not the audio, of the President...
...RNC Veers Right The Republican National Committee is considering a proposal to make party funding to candidates conditional on support for a total ban on partial-birth abortions. Is the GOP going to burn its big tent...
...RNC Veers Right The Republican National Committee is considering a proposal to make party funding to candidates conditional on support for a total ban on partial-birth abortions. Is the GOP going to burn its big tent...
...Republicans have already won. "Usually at the end of these campaigns, the party with the most money wins," conceded President Clinton on the fund-raising trail. That means the GOP ? and though it's traditional for Democrats to be outspent, the margin this year was huge. The RNC plowed millions of dollars in soft (and extremely quiet) money into the big races: governorships in New Jersey and Virginia; a House seat in Staten Island...