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The other, now more common, meaning harbors an element of deviousness: Stealth candidates in state and local elections in 1992 and 1994, for example, were Trojan stalking horses for fundamentalist Christian forces--men and women who emphasized popular, secular conservative issues in their campaigns but failed to disclose that their candidacies had been covertly planned and energized by the religious right.
Pundits debated whether the candidacies would: 1) take votes from Republicans; 2) take votes from Democrats; or 3) create a self-destructive battle for the soul of the Reform Party.
The media's spins: 1) He announced his decision just before the end of the year in order to steal the "first candidate" title from other Republicans who were about to launch their candidacies.
This is all soft money, not governed by the rules for individual, union, or corporate campaign contributions, because it's collected for party-building activities and issue ads rather than for individual candidacies, and the paper explains that the new high levels of giving mean that the total amount of soft money collected for 2000 could double the 1996 amount.
The same cannot be said of today's presidential candidacies.