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EDITORIAL: Public Campaign Financing: Not too late to save it.(Editorial)

The Philadelphia Inquirer (Philadelphia, PA)

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Apr. 17--The staggering sums of money already raised by the 2008 presidential candidates merit one more plea to salvage public campaign financing.

The primary fund-raising totals so far dwarf any previous election at this early signpost. On the Democratic side: Sen. Barack Obama (D., Ill.), $24.8 million; Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton (D., N.Y.), $19.1 million; former Sen. John Edwards, $14 million.

Among the Republicans: former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney, $20.7 million; former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani, $14.7 million; U.S. Sen. John McCain of Arizona, $13 million.

These jaw-dropping totals have generated a twisted excitement about the ...

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