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Political Memo: What Happens to Public Financing?
nytimes.com - 11/3/2008
Political Memo: What Happens to Public Financing?
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Democrats are grappling with whether they can embrace Senator Barack Obama’s example without being seen as hypocritical. >
volokh.com - 11/5/2008
Memo to Political Commentators for the Next Four Years:
— volokh.com — With a switch from Republican to Democratic control of the White House a few weeks away, I... thought I would remind political commentators of the new ground rules.... (more) Memo to Political Commentators for the Next Four Years:

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The Caucus — ... races across the country. On the Money In a political memo, The Times’s Michael Luo explores the future of the public financing system for presidential campaigns after a record-setting fund-raising effort by the Obama team. Mr. Luo writes: “Democrats, in particular, who have traditionally supported limits on campaign spending, are grappling with whether they can embrace Mr. Obama’s example without being seen as hypocritical. They are keenly aware that they have developed through the Internet a commanding fund-raising advantage over Republicans, much like the ...

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