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Coulda Been a Contender: Catching Up With ’08 Presidential Also-Rans

PaperTrail is going through withdrawal. Memories of once-regular characters like Fred Thompson, Chris Dodd, and the slew of other presidential contenders are beginning to fade. And though Hillary Clinton and Joe Biden have stayed in the picture — benefiting from President-Elect Obama’s “Team of Rivals” approach — what about the remaining cast of challengers we grew to know (and occasionally love) over the past two years?

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“Increasingly what’s going on is that special interests are less and less able to tell a politician what to do and more and more able to tell the voters what to think.”
Dick Morris, political strategist and commentator
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Buying of the President 2004

Read everything the Center’s ever written about money in presidential politics.
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Interview with Scott Harshbarger

Scott Harshbarger is a senior council at Proskauer Rose LLP, an international law firm. He was the president and CEO of Common Cause, a pro-reform 501(c)(4) organization from 1999 to 2002. Prior, he was a two-term attorney general of Massachusetts.

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