"The difference is that Republicans, having rarely backed a campaign finance rule, feel no squeamishness on this score. Democrats do — or at least they worry about being labeled hypocrites for exploiting the very campaign finance loopholes they once derided. As a result, they often end up lagging in the fundraising game du jour, accused of being two-faced, or both.
You can already see this dynamic being played out in the 2012 campaign. First, and timely as the president conducts a West Coast fundraising swing, there is the uncomfortable matter of Barack Obama as the Billion Dollar Man."
Democrats fall into the campaign financing game they once decried
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