Disconsolate
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Greetings.
I've often posited the thought, "If RP's free-market thoughts are so beneficial to corporations why do they not flood him with donations?".
I was responded to with a link to:
http://www.opensecrets.org/politicians/industries.php?cycle=2012&cid=n00005906&type=I
Showing all the industries that donate (individually) to RP. This was supposed to be some sort of evidence that RP does indeed get donations from big business.
RP is sitting at about 95% individual donations, 5% "other" (no idea what that is).
From there I wandered over to Romney's.
http://www.opensecrets.org/politicians/industries.php?cycle=2012&cid=n00005906&type=I
http://www.opensecrets.org/pres12/indus.php?cycle=2012&id=N00000286
From here you can see he does indeed receive a LOT of money from corporations we'd expect (financial sector for example).
However, his individual donations is at 99% (4% above RP's). I don't understand this, wouldn't it all come from PAC's at those businesses?
After that I went over to Obama's
http://www.opensecrets.org/pres12/contrib.php?cycle=2012&id=N00009638
http://www.opensecrets.org/pres12/indus.php?cycle=2012&id=N00009638
Similar story. Industries and corporations we'd expect. His individual donations are 74%. This makes a little more sense.
I was also shown this:
http://dirtyenergymoney.com/view.php?searchvalue=Ron+Paul&search=1&type=search
Although the amount he received is honestly laughable compared to the millions others receive. Still, it should be looked at.
Help me make sense of this all. My main defense of Paul would assume that those were individuals that donated, not the company. However, in that case Romney does better then Paul. This simply doesn't make sense because Romney's grassroots presence is almost nonexistent.
I've often posited the thought, "If RP's free-market thoughts are so beneficial to corporations why do they not flood him with donations?".
I was responded to with a link to:
http://www.opensecrets.org/politicians/industries.php?cycle=2012&cid=n00005906&type=I
Showing all the industries that donate (individually) to RP. This was supposed to be some sort of evidence that RP does indeed get donations from big business.
RP is sitting at about 95% individual donations, 5% "other" (no idea what that is).
From there I wandered over to Romney's.
http://www.opensecrets.org/politicians/industries.php?cycle=2012&cid=n00005906&type=I
http://www.opensecrets.org/pres12/indus.php?cycle=2012&id=N00000286
From here you can see he does indeed receive a LOT of money from corporations we'd expect (financial sector for example).
However, his individual donations is at 99% (4% above RP's). I don't understand this, wouldn't it all come from PAC's at those businesses?
After that I went over to Obama's
http://www.opensecrets.org/pres12/contrib.php?cycle=2012&id=N00009638
http://www.opensecrets.org/pres12/indus.php?cycle=2012&id=N00009638
Similar story. Industries and corporations we'd expect. His individual donations are 74%. This makes a little more sense.
I was also shown this:
http://dirtyenergymoney.com/view.php?searchvalue=Ron+Paul&search=1&type=search
Although the amount he received is honestly laughable compared to the millions others receive. Still, it should be looked at.
Help me make sense of this all. My main defense of Paul would assume that those were individuals that donated, not the company. However, in that case Romney does better then Paul. This simply doesn't make sense because Romney's grassroots presence is almost nonexistent.
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