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| | Money Talks |
 | | The electoral calculus confronting Democrats is stark: the Democratic presidential nominee, whoever he is, will go up against the best money-raiser in the business, George Bush, and the president is likely to have hustled a record-busting $200 million by election time. |
 | | Under the current system, money talks: and unless the Dean or Clark or Kerry can rake in the contributions in comparable amounts, Bush's money edge, other things being equal, will be decisive. |
 | | First, it was intended to release candidates from dependence on self-interested, large contributors and, second, to enable underdogs to win or lose on the merits of their message, not on the thickness of their wallets. |
| www.motherjones.com /news/dailymojo/2003/11/we_606_03b.html (989 words) |
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