Could "Military Support" for Obama be skewed?

[Todd]

Look at this breakdown on Open secrets. It's DOD personnel that's driving a large portion of his donations. Having been in the militay, one could construe this as not actual "military" donations from uniformed person's who do the fighting and dieing. By including these numbers it makes Obama's numbers in "military support" close to Ron's.

DOD personnel can be people working for the MIC like DOD civilians and contractors. Paul is only pulling in $9,527 from DOD. But as one of the comments there states....These are not people with "their butt's on the line".


I've been getting some resistance from other conservatives who think Ron's support is skewed because of the similar donations to Obama. Now it makes more sense to me

Obama

National Guard ................... $1,262
US Air Force ..................... $9,785
US Army ...........................$15,600
US Coast Guard ................ $6,002
US Dept of Defense...........$27,613
US Marine Corps..................$1,700
US Military ........................$200
US Navy............................$10,454
TOTAL .............................$72,616

Paul
National Guard...............$4,068
US Air Force................. $23,736
US Army.......................$24,503
US Coast Guard...............$3,716
US Dept of Defense..........$9,527
US Marine Corps............ $7,662
US Military..................... $2,083
US Navy........................$20,272
TOTAL ..........................$95,567

http://www.opensecrets.org/news/2012/01/military-donors-still-prefer-paul.html

 

[Krugerrand]

Originally named, more appropriately, the Department of War.