"The first time I covered Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) he was enjoying the raucous cheers of liberal college students," writes David Weigel. "Less than a year later, McCain and Feingold got rid of soft money as we knew it. The outcome: McCain, the on-and-off front-runner for next year`s Republican presidential nomination, has cut back on those small-money barbecues and come crawling to the deep-pocketed donors who helped Bush clobber him in 2000."
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