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{{cquote|[The] '''Shadow Party''' is a nationwide network of more than five-dozen unions, non-profit activist groups, and think tanks whose agendas are ideologically to the left, which are engaged in campaigning for the Democrats. Its activities include fundraising, get-out-the-vote drives, political advertising, opposition research, and media manipulation. The Shadow Party was conceived and organized principally by George Soros, Hillary Clinton and Harold McEwan Ickes<ref>[http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/groupProfile.asp?grpid=6706 Shadow Party] Discover The Networks</ref>.}}

Soros and his wife, Susan, contributed $13 million to the Shadow party cause in 2004. The Shadow Party emerged from the dense thicket of campaign finance reforms engineered by Senators [[John McCain]] and [[Russ Feingold]]. This created an imperative that found its inevitable loophole in soft money.  McCain-Feingold deprived the Democrats of their soft money, but the Shadow Party has provided an alternate channel for collecting unlimited contributions. Under McCain-Feingold, they may no longer pass that money along to the [[Democratic]] Party directly. Instead, they give it to the Shadow Party who supports Democrats. <ref>[http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1236609/posts The Shadow Party: Part I] Front Page Magazine, October 6, 20004</ref>