21.   Among the least important issues to voters were campaign finance reform, a McCain priority, and whether the Confederate battle flag should fly over the state Capitol.

22.   Americans looking for progress this election year on the issue of campaign finance reform got some conflicting signals last week.

23.   An aide to DeLay prevented Obey from escalating the tiff, which had started as a verbal skirmish over campaign finance reform.

24.   An important but little-noticed boost was given to campaign finance reform in the Senate this week.

25.   Americans do care about campaign reform.

26.   Among the issues Lamm said neither major party was willing to address were campaign finance reform and reform of entitlement programs such as Social Security and Medicare.

27.   An effort to pass campaign finance reform Thursday ran aground in a bitter procedural dispute in the House of Representatives.

28.   And he believes that the money could be found if campaign finance reform were enacted and subsidies were cut.

29.   And he remains credible on campaign finance reform, an issue on which Clinton and Dole, for all their flirtation with the subject, have not delivered.

30.   And his popular fight for campaign finance reform is resonating with voters.