public financing, RIP
http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/TheNote/story?id=156238&page=2
“The public financing system for presidential campaigns, a post-
Watergate initiative hailed for decades as the best way to rid
politics of the corrupting influence of money, may have quietly died
over the weekend,” writes David Kirkpatrick of the New York Times
keying off of Sen. Clinton’s decision to not participate in the
public financing system for either the nomination fight or the
general election. LINK
Under the headline, “Clinton Bid Heralds Demise of Public Financing,”
the Washington Post Balz and Most describe the likely demised of the
public financing system in 2008. LINK