Corporate political influence in the U.S. depends primarily on the popularity of the products, jobs, and investment returns they produce.
And successful companies create rich people, who sometimes make a lot of personal donations to politicians and parties. That gets lumped in with corporate influence depending on the details, even though they are personal donations.
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Corporate political influence in the U.S. depends primarily on the popularity of the products, jobs, and investment returns they produce.
And successful companies create rich people, who sometimes make a lot of personal donations to politicians and parties. That gets lumped in with corporate influence depending on the details, even though they are personal donations.