Alison McCook has a lengthy article now up on The Scientist website that illustrates how NIH grant funding shortfalls are coming home to roost, with soft money faculty first to be jettisoned. In 2007, more than 4000 NIH-funded ...

John McCain appears to have fizzled for lack of money, leading to a quiet round of finger-pointing among Democratic operatives and donors as McCain assembles a campaign a nd a public image relatively unmolested....Leading Democratic donors decided last fall not to repeat the 2004 pattern of pouring money into ad hoc organizations that would dissolve after the election....That's because, people involved say, the soft-money groups don't have the soft money....

I mean, the much lauded campaign finance reform effort of a few years ago - the so-called McCain- Feingold bill was supposed to have banned soft money. In fact all the campaign finance reform groups -- I don't think there was a single ...

...ranks and the fundraising woes that have dogged them throughout this election cycle should take heart -- the soft money just might be coming.

Forbes - McCain is mocking questions about his role in the tanker deal at the same time he brags about championing campaign finance reform in order to stop special interests from contributing soft money "at the time legislation were being framed or passed ...

Salon - ... mixed heritage is making it harder to read his candidacy in terms of race. By James Hannaham Will the press get over its love for McCain? The "straight-talking maverick" should be scrutinized like other candidates -- for starters on his soft-money ...

Salon - ... mixed heritage is making it harder to read his candidacy in terms of race. By James Hannaham Will the press get over its love for McCain? The "straight-talking maverick" should be scrutinized like other candidates -- for starters on his soft-money ...