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Originally Posted by sgtdmski Campaign finance reform was a joke and it still is one. The bill did nothing to reform the system, all it did was take soft money away from the parties and candidates and put it in the hands of the 527s. More money was spent in the 2004 election than ever before. For the longest time democrats cried about soft money, and then the truth came out, that the dems actually raise more soft money than the republicans.
If the 2004 election cycle was any indication of what reform meant, it was a bad reform. That alone is a major hit on his candidacy.
dmk | Like you said, the "soft money," merely changed names under McCain-Feingold. Democrats find themselves in the pockets of a batch of petulant billionaires, led by George Soros, Peter Lewis and Steven Bing. That trio alone contributed nearly $65 million to Democratic candidates and causes during the 2004 election cycle. The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing. ~Edmund Burke |