Press release: “… a newly released Campaign Finance Institute study on the role of unlimited corporate, labor union and individual “soft money” in the 2006 elections and what these developments might mean for 2008. The study analyzed the broad array of nonprofits active in the 2006 election: 527 political organizations, Section 501(c)(4) social welfare groups, (c)(5) labor unions and (c)(6) trade associations, and “taxable” entities that operate as nonprofits, comparing the groups’ activities with those undertaken in 2002 and 2004. It assessed how the changing legal and political environment affected the groups’ operations in ’06 and might do so in ’08. In particular, it inquired how parent interest groups and large individual donors might react to changing circumstances by reshuffling their nonprofit organizational cards.”