1.  And raising hard money became increasingly difficult as the campaign wore on.

2.  Also, it is illegal to solicit hard money donations on federal property.

3.  And other Democrats, including Senate Democratic Leader Tom Daschle of South Dakota, have called for the current caps on hard money to remain.

4.  Attorney General Janet Reno has said that telephone solicitations for hard money by the president or vice president were subject to federal campaign finance laws and could be illegal.

5.  Both parties are scrambling to raise enough of this regulated hard money so that they can spend their soft money.

6.  Both parties used soft money to finance advertising campaigns virtually indistinguishable from those financed by hard money.

7.  Both states also have much stricter hard money contribution limits than New York.

8.  Although doubling the limit on hard money, the compromise was considered a success by Senate Democrats, who fought back GOP demands for much larger increases.

9.  Also, hard money will continue to corrode politics until ways are found to reduce the high costs of campaigns and make them more competitive.

10.  All the fund-raisers Gore has done since the convention, for example, have been to raise hard money.