1.0 link 108132 <![CDATA[Author Of McCain-Feingold: Obama Smart To Opt Out Of Public Funds]]> http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/06/19/author-of-mccain-feingold_n_108132.html One of the principal authors of the most significant campaign finance legislation since Watergate said he was neither "outraged" nor "surprised" with Barack Obama's decision to forgo public funding in the general election.

Norm Ornstein, a fellow at the conservative American Enterprise Institute and substantial contributor to the Bipartisan Campaign Reform Act -- also known as the "McCain-Feingold" campaign finance legislation -- said on Thursday that Obama's move was "pragmatically the right decision to make," and that, if the Senator had...

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