In the meantime, the Republican and Democratic parties are unleashing the last of hundreds of millions of dollars worth of so-called "soft money" -- hard cash -- in the final barrage of campaign ads and get-out-the-vote efforts.

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The money will stay in short term notes while Rahr interviews candidates to run his hard earned cash.

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But he pointed out that it also needed to be fair to those people who had paid their taxes on account or had put money aside in case they eventually had to pay up, and who had not spent their money on day-to-day living or on investments they would find it hard to cash in.

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