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Obama rails about lobbyist, I wonder how much his party has taken?
Lawyers & Lobbyists: Long-Term Contribution Trends | OpenSecrets
Scads of money, no doubt.
Both parties drink from the same well, after all. If some PAC comes at them with a lof of money, they're going to take it.
Obama seems to have tapped into one hell of a lot of small contributors though.
anyone know where we can get hard numbers of contributions to each candidate to date?
It might be illuminating to compare them.
OpenSecrets.org: Money in Politics -- See Who's Giving & Who's Getting is pretty comprehensive. I think they have records of EVERY politician, actually.
Obama rails about lobbyist, I wonder how much his party has taken?
Lawyers & Lobbyists: Long-Term Contribution Trends | OpenSecrets
The link above tells us only about money contributed by the legal profession.
I do not doubt that the legal profession leans to the Dems.
I meant ALL money contributed to the candidates or the parties from all sources.
Why do you lie?
Obama has raised $336 million dollars from 1.5 million contributors. His is probably the cleanest grassroots campaign in history.
Not like your oil company butt boy Republicans.
Summary data for Barack Obama | OpenSecrets
Nooo dude, ALL the money is there. Go look around. It even has a cool new format now.
Yeah, the site puts numbers from companies but makes it clear that the cash isn't given BY the Companies, but by individuals who work for the companies, by the companies' PACs, etc.
The most interesting thing, though, is that for almost every politician, the top 20 contirbutors are always the same. I'd say it's a very disturbing trend when both political parties recieve the most sums from the same groups. It's something to really think about.If you go to the "Contributors" section of any individual politician, you see the top firms (compiled from people who work there, pacs, etc), and if you go to the "Industry" section you see the compilation from the sums of all those companies that fall from the same industries. I don't think individual donors names are given, but I'd say it's one of the most complete pictures I've seen.
Yep, exactly. It's especially damaging because there are only two parties! If they are both dependent on their largest donors, and they have the same donors, then if you really want to know who they're beholding to, then you have to look at who those lawyers represent, what are they're agendas, etc. Or the financial sector, Merril Lynch, Goldman Sachs, etc. They're on everyone's list! They really don't care much who wins, because they fund both parties. They've got all bases covered. These are the real constituencies. It's obviously not just a US problem, it happens in democracy at large without controls on these things, and it can probably account for the huge gap between public opinion and public policy. It's a real problem.
Obama's Donors:
Goldman Sachs $627,730
University of California $523,120
JPMorgan Chase & Co $398,021
Citigroup Inc $393,899
UBS AG $378,400
Google Inc $373,212
Harvard University $369,802
Lehman Brothers $353,922
National Amusements Inc $352,603
Moveon.org $347,463
Sidley Austin LLP $326,845
Skadden, Arps et al $304,050
Time Warner $298,972
Morgan Stanley $291,388
Microsoft Corp $276,925
Jones Day $266,705
Latham & Watkins $252,845
University of Chicago $250,685
Wilmerhale Llp $249,282
Exelon Corp $239,061
McCain's Donors:
Merrill Lynch $284,610
Citigroup Inc $252,801
Morgan Stanley $211,821
Goldman Sachs $198,045
Blank Rome LLP $171,026
AT&T Inc $169,613
JPMorgan Chase & Co $165,275
Greenberg Traurig LLP $152,687
Credit Suisse Group $133,125
UBS AG $127,315
Bank of America $116,125
US Government $114,176
Lehman Brothers $112,700
PricewaterhouseCoopers $111,070
Wachovia Corp $111,046
FedEx Corp $97,753
Pinnacle West Capital $94,900
Bear Stearns $90,100
Blackstone Group $89,500
Bank of New York Mellon $89,500
Bush's Donors:
MBNA Corp $240,675
Vinson & Elkins $203,850
Credit Suisse First Boston $191,400
Ernst & Young $179,949
Andersen Worldwide $146,650
Morgan Stanley Dean Witter & Co $144,900
Merrill Lynch $132,425
PricewaterhouseCoopers $127,798
Baker & Botts $116,371
Goldman Sachs $114,999
Citigroup Inc $114,300
Enron Corp $113,800
Bank of America $112,500
KPMG LLP $107,744
Jenkens & Gilchrist $105,450
Enterprise Rent-A-car $97,498
State of Texas $87,254
American General Corp $84,509
Deloitte & Touche $81,600
AXA Financial
Gore's Donors:
Ernst & Young $134,925
Citigroup Inc $111,750
Viacom Inc $107,675
Us Dept of Agriculture $102,466
Goldman Sachs $97,750
Time Warner $85,175
BellSouth Corp $74,500
US Dept of Justice $64,001
University of California $63,245
Kushner Companies $53,000
Morgan Stanley Dean Witter & Co $52,300
Holland & Knight $52,100
National Jewish Democratic Council $51,250
Cablevision Systems Corp $51,200
Akin, Gump et al $48,000
Jenner & Block $48,000
AT&T $44,000
US Dept of State $43,775
Skadden, Arps et al $43,250
Credit Suisse First Boston $43,000
good post
Yeah, the site puts numbers from companies but makes it clear that the cash isn't given BY the Companies, but by individuals who work for the companies, by the companies' PACs, etc.
The most interesting thing, though, is that for almost every politician, the top 20 contirbutors are always the same. I'd say it's a very disturbing trend when both political parties recieve the most sums from the same groups. It's something to really think about.
If you go to the "Contributors" section of any individual politician, you see the top firms (compiled from people who work there, pacs, etc), and if you go to the "Industry" section you see the compilation from the sums of all those companies that fall from the same industries. I don't think individual donors names are given, but I'd say it's one of the most complete pictures I've seen.
Yeah, the site puts numbers from companies but makes it clear that the cash isn't given BY the Companies, but by individuals who work for the companies, by the companies' PACs, etc.
The most interesting thing, though, is that for almost every politician, the top 20 contirbutors are always the same. I'd say it's a very disturbing trend when both political parties recieve the most sums from the same groups. It's something to really think about.
If you go to the "Contributors" section of any individual politician, you see the top firms (compiled from people who work there, pacs, etc), and if you go to the "Industry" section you see the compilation from the sums of all those companies that fall from the same industries. I don't think individual donors names are given, but I'd say it's one of the most complete pictures I've seen.
