Several candidates won even though considerably less was spent in their campaigns than in their opponents'. Unfortunately, the good news just involves three candidates out of hundreds. We still need to repeal Buckley . Bill Clinton's Patients' Bill of Rights has opened up the pocketbooks of the lobbyists. One of the more fascinating inconsistencies of American liberalism is that abortion is advocated while the death penalty is opposed.
Conservatives have a similar problem.
They love the death penalty and hate abortion. Anyway, what reminded me of all this was a recent conference at Northwestern University that featured death penalty survivors, people whose conviction had been reversed at the last minute. You don't want to risk frying one innocent person. It's more than likely that only a few of the convicted murderers were innocent flowers. The rest were beneficiaries of lawyers clever enough to exploit the many inefficiencies of the criminal justice system.