But to the Christian right, their marriage with the secular Republicans must have its faith-testing moments. Anyway, if the coalition has made itself a bad deal, the Dole campaign hasn't exactly cleaned up. The Christian Coalition's money comes at high costs to itself and to Mr. Dole. The National Rifle Association can buy candidates on an open market. The trial lawyers have probably generated more big corporate money for the Republicans than they have given to the Democrats to fight tort reform.
Corporations hate being sued.
Lawyers love to sue them. Union expenditures in this election are more than matched by direct and indirect corporate giving, much of it driven by fear of labor's newfound activism.