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Obama Recasts the Fund-Raising Landscape |
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...Sunday, October 19, 2008 WASHINGTON -- It wasn't Barack Obama's most critically acclaimed moment. When the Democratic presidential candidate reneged on his pledge to take public financing for the general election, campaign watchdog groups and newspaper editorialists pounced. They all hoped he would help salvage a broken campaign finance system. Instead, he created a whole new one,... |
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...accept it if his opponent did as well. It was a move the campaign of Senator John McCain and campaign finance watchdog groups harshly criticized. But any effort to fix the system would be complicated by loopholes that permit wealthy individuals and moneyed interests to exert outsize influence, including through 527 groups, which can accept unlimited contributions. "If you locked me up in a room and... |
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