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There is nothing more important to a campaign than money. Votes are nice, but it just takes forever to get them cast (come on, November!?!). The amount that you have in the bank determines if you'll spend the summer in the heat of a campaign talking to PCOs in some school lunch room about parking garages, or out of the race on a nice boat gliding across Puget Sound.

The Senate was asked to support the troops this morning via a defence spending bill that included money for soldiers in Iraq, Katrina aid and, of course, drilling for oil in the Alaskan wildlife refuge. Attaching ANWR drilling to a defence spending bill that must get passed was the brainchild of Senator Stevens of Alaska who has been trying to dig up the refuge for twenty years, a move that Senator John McCain called, "disgraceful" and "disgusting." This is probably his most fail-safe attempt to date and it failed. Screw you, Stevens.