For Congress and the president, because they have had to make so much money to get elected, their options to implement reform are limited and probably not politically feasible.

After the Republicans took control of Congress in '94 and Newt Gingrich and company came to town, the money moved from being roughly equal between Democrats and Republicans to very heavily Republican.

Whoever is elected to Congress and the presidency is going to have a satchel full of political IOUs to deliver on.

The money provides a buffer that could keep Bradley in the race longer than the voters would.

This is a story about what one election hath wrought to the PAC dollars, ... Again, being used to watching these things move very incrementally, it looks like the glacier just calved off and the Democrats were the victims in that one.

It's an area where most people may not have much knowledge,