| | Reversal of campaign fortunes - The Washington Times: Editorials/OP-ED - October 31, 2004 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11) |
 | | Then there is the overwhelming advantage Democratic partisans on raising unregulated soft-money contributions, which the campaign-finance law effectively re-directed from party committees toward quasi-independent issue- and candidate-advocating 527 organizations. |
 | | Even the Democrats' $66 million hard-money advantage since July 1, as impressive and counter-intuitive as it is, pales in magnitude compared to the soft-money advantage that the Democratic Party and Mr. |
 | | It is clear that Democrats have won a major fund-raising victory on the 527 soft-money front, which, buttressing its hard-money surge in 2004, could well make the difference on Tuesday. |
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