OK, that’s not so shocking. What is cool though is that there are sites like opensecrets.org that share things like campaign finance information - even if it is from past years. For example you can keep up on folks like Ron Paul, Hillary Clinton, Obama, and of course Mitt Romney, who is apparently quite wealthy on his own. You can check out the whole running crew, too.

As a voter, assuming you are one, this is a great way to look at the financial state of a campaign and make some conclusions about different organizations that donate funds. For example the list of top donors that includes AT&T (thanks for making communication so expensive, but turning that expense into political contributions, guys), the NRA, and various unions. You can also see what political party they favored here.

• Dems Is Good. Dems Bring Money.
• Not Seeing the Soccer

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