41.   Despite legal measures to clean up the campaign finance system, experts say the new rules have had little impact.

42.   During his campaign, McCain has criticized the campaign finance system, saying that it leaves influential lawmakers like himself beholden to business interests that provide the funds.

43.   Election law specialists said Friday the law permitting the use of so-called soft money represents a huge gray area in the campaign finance system that both parties exploit.

44.   Enron deftly used the campaign finance system to its advantage long before the story of its collapse made its political contributions so well known.

45.   Each pronounced himself the genuine reformer in the race and an early advocate of overhauling the campaign finance system.

46.   Faith in Congress has declined in the decades since, while the campaign finance system is more loophole than law.

47.   Feingold has been crusading to pass legislation to overhaul the campaign finance system, and he made the effort a central issue in his race against Rep. Mark Neumann.

48.   Exporters have often been unable to take advantage of their newly competitive exchange rate because the trade finance system has nearly collapsed.

49.   For months, the drive to clean up the American campaign finance system has seemed frozen.

50.   For McCain, whose jihad against the corruption of the current campaign finance system wins him few friends among the professional lobbyists, this is a solid showing.