Sources and Links

Alexander, Herbert E. "Limits are Undemocratic." USA TODAY 27 April 1994, p.10A

 

"Campaign Finance Reform Foes Lott and McConnell Delivered for Republican Soft Money Donors in 1998-99" <http://www.citizen.org/congress/reform/delivering.htm> Oct. 15, 1999

 

http://www.citizen.org/congress/index.html

Ralph Nader’s Public Citizen Congress Watch

 

http://www.citizen.org/congress/reform/delivering.htm

Public Citizen "Delivering for dollars" article

 

http://www.cloakroom.com/members/polltrack/todays/1999/hp990928.htm#RASMUSSEN

Cloakroom Poll

 

http://www.commoncause.org/issue_agenda/issues.htm

Common Cause Congress Watchdog

 

http://www.commoncause.org/laundromat/

Common Cause Soft Money Laundromat

 

http://commoncause.org/publications/oct99/airline/

Common Cause Airlines passenger rights article

 

(Constitutional Law, second edition. Canada:Little, Brown, and Company, 1991. Pg.1310)

 

DiClerico, Robert E. and Allan S. Hammock. Points of view: Readings in American Government and Politics, 7th edition. Boston: McGraw Hill, 1998.

 

"Excerpts From Gift Debate." The New York Times. 15 Oct. 1999, p.A30

http://www.fec.gov/

Federal Election Commission

 

Gross, Kenneth. "Endless loopholes-Washington lawyers find them faster than Congress can close them." Slate. 11 Oct. 1997. <http://www.slate.com/Features/McCain/McCain.asp>

Mitchell, Alison. "Republicans Pillory McCain in Debate Over Soft Money." The New York Times.

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Mollinson, Andrew. "Want to run for president? You may need $ 22 million in '99 To have a chance of winning in 2000, candidates must dig up a fortune early in the fund-raising game." The Atlanta Journal and Constitution. 27 Dec. 1998, p.12A

http://www.motherjones.com/coinop_congress/

MotherJones coin-op Congress

 

http://www.opensecrets.org/pubs/bigpicture2000/overview/who_paid.ihtml

Center for Responsive Politics.

 

http://www.opensecrets.org/pubs/bigpicture2000/pac/index.ihtml

Opensecrets, PAC graph.

 

http://www.opensecrets.org/pubs/bigpicture2000/soft_money/index.ihtml

Opensecrets, soft money contributions

 

http://www.opensecrets.org/pubs/bigpicture2000/overview/issue.ihtml

Opensecrets, issue advertising

 

http://www.opensecrets.org/pubs/bigpicture2000/overview/stats.ihtml

Opensecrets, 96-98 statistics at a glance (most/least expensive winning campaign)

 

http://www.senate.gov/~mccain/

Senator McCain’s Homepage

 

http://www.slate.com/Features/McCain/McCain.asp

Slate

 

Stanger, Jeffrey D. and Douglas G. Rivlin. "Issue advocacy advertising during the 1997-98 election cycle." Annenberg Public Policy Center University of Pennsylvania. < http://appcpenn.org/issueads/report.htm>

 

http://www.vote-smart.org/

Vote Smart

 

Woll, Peter. American Government: readings and cases, 13th edition. New York: Longman, 1999.

 

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