Soldiers for Obama. Lobbyists for Hillary.
by grasstank
Mon Feb 04, 2008 at 07:06:16 PM PDT
An interesting catch by Tapper:
In the 4th quarter of 2007, individuals in the Army, Navy and Air Force made those branches of the armed services the No. 13, No. 18 and No. 21, contributing industries, respectively. War opponent Rep. Ron Paul, R-Texas, received the most from donors in the military, collecting at least $212,000 from them. Another war opponent, Sen. Barack Obama, D-Illinois, was second with about $94,000.
Soldiers love Ron and Barack, and lobbyists love Sen. Hillary Clinton, D-NY, the No. 1 recipient of lobbyist cash, receiving $823,000 in 2007 from the lobbying industry, which gave about $2.7 million overall.
Also, Hillary has raised almost 10x more money from lobbyists than Obama (like Edwards, he doesn't take money from federal lobbyists). Not a surprise, then, that Obama has a much higher percentage of small money donors than her.
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