1.  Gore has been the most vocal in his embrace of the reforms championed by McCain and Bradley, including the elimination of unrestricted soft money to political parties.

2.  In volume of grants and quantity of unrestricted money, the Shubert Foundation is the largest private supporter of nonprofit theater in the country.

3.  The DNC channeled money through the states because they are permitted to spend more unrestricted money on the ads.

4.  Unrestricted soft money allows the political parties to extort large contributions from corporations and organizations that will need help in upcoming legislative sessions.

5.  Both political parties use unrestricted soft money donations to run ads promoting their candidates and knocking down the opposition.

6.  In recent years, Democrats have made up the difference with Republicans by raising millions in unrestricted soft money.