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"The Collapse of the Public Financing System for U.S. Presidential Campaigns: Blame Congress, Not the Candidates"

By Rick Hasen

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I've just written this Findlaw column. It begins: The voluntary public financing system for U.S. presidential candidates, established in the post-Watergate era, is in its last throes. As it collapses, presidential candidates have been calculating---and recalculating--the advantages of opting in...

Full post as published by Election Law on April 22, 2008 (boomark / email).

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