71.   Backers of campaign finance reform are responding in part to public outcry over the influence that money has on campaigns.

72.   Bans on soft-money contributions are expected to be a major topic when campaign finance reform comes up for debate in Congress later this year.

73.   Attempts at campaign finance reform and gun control have also been embedded in various spending bills.

74.   Beatty has said his central issue would be campaign reform.

75.   Beyond McCain and his co-sponsor, Sen. Russell Feingold, D-Wis., independent groups have singled out TV advertising costs as a target of campaign finance reform.

76.   Bill Thomas, House Oversight Committee chairman and no friend to campaign finance reform, deserves some credit for working out the time-limit agreement.

77.   Bob Dole, favorite son of the tobacco and gun lobbies, born again as an apostle of campaign finance reform!

78.   Beyond campaign finance reform, he refused to cede ground on any of his positions.

79.   Both are in tough re-election fights in states where voters care about campaign reform.

80.   Both Clinton and Dole felt obliged to make specific, belated pitches for campaign finance reform, as though they had just discovered these abuses and were shocked.