Friday, February 22, 2008

Race for the White House: Who's giving Money to Who!

There's a fabulous web site that is definately worth visiting - http://www.opensecrets.org

It's the web site of the Center for Responsive Politics. There you will find complete campaign finance reports for the presidential candidates. I was fascinated to find out who's contributing to whom, what the candidates are spending and where, who the heavy hitters are, etc.

I was surprised to learn that the Lobbyists overwhelmingly love Hillary, contributing $764,142 to her campaign while donating only $87,108 to Obama, $422,276 to McCain and a whopping $300 to Ron Paul ... was it something that Ron said?

The Lawyers and law firms are Billary's single biggest fans ponying up a mere $12,452,460 to get her nominated. Obama received $9,732,282 ... boy those lawyers have bucks to toss around. McCain received $2,557,661 and then they sent Ron Paul $237,275... I guess at this point they simply ran out of bucks!

Here's what really sticks out like a sore thumb. The lobbyists, lawyers, commercial banks, hedge funds, real estate, and the securities and investments sectors are really dumping on Ron Paul, the man who has promised to uphold the Constitution of the United States by shutting down and abolishing the Federal Reserve.

When the big boys try to make Ron Paul irrelevant, perhaps the alarm bells should go off, and America would be served well by taking a close look at what Ron Paul stands for.

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