The web may soon face the same political advertising spending limitations placed upon other media in the 2002 McCain-Feingold reforms. Many pundits at first thought the internet to be a major beneficiary of 2004 election year spending due to the foible in new campaign spending rules, but it turned out that even the much-touted Howard Dean primary campaign and the later John Kerry presidential bid didn't actually throw much spending weight behind their online media campaigns. Still, a federal judge ruled that the internet exception "severely undermines" the purpose of the law, and now the Federal Elections Commission is reluctantly reviewing whether or not it will have to monitor political ads online.