U.S. Military donates most to Ron Paul, again!

[radiofriendly]

The latest numbers are in:

Despite no longer being in the race, Rep. Ron Paul continues to receive more donations from the U.S. military than the Republican presidential nominee, Gov. Mitt Romney. Paul has raised $399,274 from members of the armed forces, while Romney has taken in $398,450.

More: http://iroots.org/2012/10/23/ron-paul-beats-romney-in-military-donations-again/
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[sailingaway]

Nice

He beat Obama too, until March.

[Zippyjuan]

Bear in mind that this is a measure of those individuals who made contributions to a particular candidate and listed one of the military branches as their employer on their donation form. http://www.opensecrets.org/news/2012/10/armed-forces-show-overwhelming-supp.html Figures are for the campaign cycle- it does not necessarily mean that people are still contributing to Ron Paul. Obama leads all the candidates in contributions from members of the military.
(figures in the chart in the OP are through August 31st- Romney now has about the same as Paul).

Update, Oct. 21: Fundraising numbers for the month of September show Obama continuing to dominate when it comes to contributions from the military. The new data, which came in after the story below was published Oct. 15, show he raised $142,197, just a shade less than he collected in August, his strongest month with this set of donors. Romney brought in $111,015 for his best month ever with military donors, but that was still 22 percent less than Obama received.

The new numbers bring Obama's total from military donors to $678,611, and Romney's to $398,450.


In August, Ron Paul took in $451 to $90,273 for Romney and $140,761 for Obama.

[sailingaway]

Bear in mind that this is a measure of those individuals who made contributions to a particular candidate and listed one of the military branches as their employer on their donation form. http://www.opensecrets.org/news/2012/10/armed-forces-show-overwhelming-supp.html Figures are for the campaign cycle- it does not necessarily mean that people are still contributing to Ron Paul. Obama leads all the candidates in contributions from members of the military.
(figures in the chart in the OP are through August 31st- Romney now has about the same as Paul).

Yeah, but the primary was over after August. Ron had no general election account.

[Machiavelli]

Looks like the Marines favor paul.

[nobody's_hero]

Looks like the Marines favor paul.

You mean they don't want a few dozen Marines stationed in the middle of a country where the vast majority of the people don't like us, and the situation is just *asking* for another incident like Beruit 1983?

That doesn't sound very patriotic of those Marines.

If you love your country, you shouldn't mind being baited on a hook. /sarcasm