Well, isn’t that kind of an outgrowth of the Willie Horton story?
Now you are going back to my days. I think it’s an outgrowth of the current political environment. Again, smart political operatives, with what’s at stake in these presidential campaigns, are going to understand all of the ways to advance their cause. Independent committees were allowed after the 1976 campaign. And those independent-expenditure committees were important in 1980. And the outgrowth of that concept is the 527 today. What about the growth in your business, talking about all of the aspects of the people who run campaigns or have some effect on campaigns for money? What do you think? Has it been helpful, harmful, or a mixed bag, about the quality of campaigns? Well, the quality of campaigns, from a technological standpoint, is much [more] advanced. And there are a lot of smart people who are involved today who didn’t exist in political campaign structures eight, 12, 20 years ago. The tone of the debate — every cycle you hear this is the dirtiest campaign ever. But frankly, n
