21.   It occurred in the final month of the campaign, and when it comes to the matter of soft money donations, the Republicans outdid the Democrats.

22.   It would also introduce a limit on so-called soft money donations to political parties, donations that have been used to skirt limits on contributions to individual candidates.

23.   It would ban the large unlimited soft money donations to national parties from corporations, businesses and rich people.

24.   Kangas is not the first corporate executive to conclude that soft money donations were a bad investment.

25.   McConnell said the one part of the bill he would not challenge was the increase in limits on hard money donations.

26.   Neighbors are going door-to-door asking for money donations for the boy and his family.

27.   On campaign finance reform, the two clashed over the McCain-Feingold bill, which would ban unlimited soft money donations to political parties.

28.   Now the Democrats are trying to ride the last soft money wave, and use those dollars to increase hard money donations.

29.   One measure sponsored by Rep. Asa Hutchinson, an Arkansas Republican, would ban soft money donations to the national political parties but not to the state parties.

30.   One major school of thought argues that soft money donations unfairly tilt the political playing field.