To make public financing more attractive, Congress should expand the amount available to candidates and place new limits on the national committees and the independent, Swift Boat-style groups known as 527s for the section of the Internal Revenue Service code that authorizes them. Changes like this would reduce the chance that candidates of the future will revert to the shakedown-style fund-raising of the Nixon administration, which brought on the Watergate reforms. Whichever candidate wins in November should put campaign finance reform at the top of his priority list.