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

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.

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.

We're going to be keeping track of those IOUs, who they are to, and what is being done about them.

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.