After the recent state elections - in three states and one union territory - elected legislators declared that that the average amount of money spent in their campaigns to be only between 39% and 59% of their limits in their official declarations.
Though elected in 1998 as a self-declared reformer who promised to fix the school system and improve child welfare, Mr Bush is now vulnerable on both counts.
Though ever more militant, on March 22nd the Kosovo Albanians nonetheless re-elected their pacifist leader, Ibrahim Rugova, as president of their self-declared republic.