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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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“We are losing our democracy to big money”
— Former U.S. Senator George McGovern, a South Dakota Democrat and the 1972 Democratic presidential nominee
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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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The Candidates

See what the presidential hopefuls have disclosed about their personal and campaign finances.
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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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