I only know what I get out of my own reading that seems to be confirmed by those that are paid to analyze the bill. What the advocacy ban seems to be targeting is both parties using soft money to secretly funnel to advocacy groups to run the final attack ads to avoid the spending caps. We saw that with the Texas guys that ran the ads in New York and then it was found out they were using party money to do so. Hard money is the direct citizen contributions either on their own or through PACS. As long as that is where the money is coming from then there is no restriction on the ads, The National parties and to a lesser extent the State parties have to stand down in the 30 days before a primary or 60 days before a federal election. We also saw it with Unions having money funneld back to them by the DNC to run their attack ads.