51.   The measure would also help candidates facing wealthy, self-funded opponents by tripling the amount of hard money they can collect per person.

52.   The legislation would ban soft money, limit the ability of outside groups to help candidates, and require greater disclosure of campaign contributions and expenditures.

53.   The one decision Gramm has made is that he will help several candidates in Texas, including Agriculture Commissioner Rick Perry, who is running for lieutenant governor.

54.   The premise of those efforts was that whites would seldom vote for blacks, and so the deck had to be stacked to help black candidates.

55.   The party will use its vast fund-raising and communications apparatus to help the candidate in the five months before the August convention.

56.   The Senate debated an amendment intended to help candidates running against self-financed opponents.

57.   The state parties would still be allowed to collect soft money contributions of unlimited size and use the money to help candidates in state races.

58.   The U.S. Senate voted Tuesday to help candidates who run against multimillionaires but some Democrats warned that such changes could jeopardize passage of campaign finance reform.

59.   They can cast a protest vote against Bush and Gore as two faces of the same terrible system, without helping the candidate they consider more terrible.