"The public financing system for presidential campaigns, a post- Watergate initiative hailed for decades as the best way to rid politics of the corrupting influence of money, may have quietly died over the weekend," writes David Kirkpatrick of the New York Times keying off of Sen. Clinton's decision to not participate in the public financing system for either the nomination fight or the general election. LINK
Under the headline, "Clinton Bid Heralds Demise of Public Financing," the Washington Post Balz and Most describe the likely demised of the public financing system in 2008. LINK