Harbinger
02-04-2008, 05:00 AM
I was reviewing www.opensecrets.org (http://www.opensecrets.org), a site which gathers information about various political contests / campaigns, including harvesting information from the FEC regarding campaign contributions. I decided to do a search on "not employed" as the employer and found some very interesting information.
Apparently unemployed people, home makers, and students have been donating large, lump sums of thousands of dollars to the candidates in the Democratic party. By comparison the Republican candidates have virtually no "unemployed" donors. Most have less than 5.
Huckabee had 0, Romney had 4 (2 of which are from the same person on different dates), McCain had 1, Ron Paul had 4 (3 of which are from the same person on different dates) and Fred had 5 (3 from the same guy on different dates).
You can see the results here:
Barrack Obama's unemployed donors (http://www.opensecrets.org/pres08/search.asp?txtCID=N00009638&name=%28all%29&employ=not+employed&state=%28all%29&zip=%28any+zip%29&submit=OK&amt=a&sort=A)
Hillary Clinton's unemployed donors (http://www.opensecrets.org/pres08/search.asp?txtCID=N00000019&name=%28all%29&employ=not+employed&state=%28all%29&zip=%28any+zip%29&submit=OK&amt=a&sort=A)
John Edwards' unemployed donors (http://www.opensecrets.org/pres08/search.asp?txtCID=N00002283&name=%28all%29&employ=not+employed&state=%28all%29&zip=%28any+zip%29&submit=OK&amt=a&sort=A)
Aside from these Democratic "front runners", this trend isn't seen with the other Democrat candidates. For example, Mike Gravel had 0 unemployed donors. Bill Richardson had 68.
And do your own searches here:donor search (http://www.opensecrets.org/pres08/search_donor.asp)
Apparently unemployed people, home makers, and students have been donating large, lump sums of thousands of dollars to the candidates in the Democratic party. By comparison the Republican candidates have virtually no "unemployed" donors. Most have less than 5.
Huckabee had 0, Romney had 4 (2 of which are from the same person on different dates), McCain had 1, Ron Paul had 4 (3 of which are from the same person on different dates) and Fred had 5 (3 from the same guy on different dates).
You can see the results here:
Barrack Obama's unemployed donors (http://www.opensecrets.org/pres08/search.asp?txtCID=N00009638&name=%28all%29&employ=not+employed&state=%28all%29&zip=%28any+zip%29&submit=OK&amt=a&sort=A)
Hillary Clinton's unemployed donors (http://www.opensecrets.org/pres08/search.asp?txtCID=N00000019&name=%28all%29&employ=not+employed&state=%28all%29&zip=%28any+zip%29&submit=OK&amt=a&sort=A)
John Edwards' unemployed donors (http://www.opensecrets.org/pres08/search.asp?txtCID=N00002283&name=%28all%29&employ=not+employed&state=%28all%29&zip=%28any+zip%29&submit=OK&amt=a&sort=A)
Aside from these Democratic "front runners", this trend isn't seen with the other Democrat candidates. For example, Mike Gravel had 0 unemployed donors. Bill Richardson had 68.
And do your own searches here:donor search (http://www.opensecrets.org/pres08/search_donor.asp)