Re:Obama, Romney Top 5 Funders
by danielwozniak on Wednesday October 24, 2012 @04:19PM
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Can someone explain what exactly "US Government" in the #1 spot for Obama means? Seems odd that government money could be used to support a candidate incumbent or not.
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The list is badly labeled. What it should be labeled is "employers of people who donate money to the candidates".
I'm flagging the submission, because although this kind of information is interesting, this is a very crappy presentation of it. For an example of a better presentation: http://www.opensecrets.org/pres12/index.php
You can read about it here: http://www.fec.gov/pages/brochures/pubfund.shtml
I believe the money in question comes from the organizations' employees, owners, and PACs not from the organizations directly.
Re:Obama, Romney Top 5 Funders
by pulplobster on Wednesday October 24, 2012 @04:22PM
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Funny, in the rest of the world, this would be normal -> parties get funding from the government, no funding from private entities allowed.