Troops Abroad Give Lots More to Obama

Poster at obamaartreport.com

Open Secrets: According to an analysis of campaign contributions by the nonpartisan Center for Responsive Politics, Democrat Barack Obama has received nearly six times as much money from troops deployed overseas at the time of their contributions than has Republican John McCain, and the fiercely anti-war Ron Paul, though he suspended his campaign for the Republican nomination months ago, has received more than four times McCain's haul.

Obama the Better Executive

which candidate has done a better job running their campaign, including raising money and getting more people involved? sen. barack obama.

more than 450,000 people have donated to the obama campaign since the beginning of the year and he's gotten more results for the money. why is this important? because it says what kind of leader he will be.

here is recent financing information for obama and clinton. new financing reports are due feb. 20.
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obama's donor breakdown by %, actual number and dollar amount

how obama is spending the money

top contributors google, goldman sachs, university of california and harvard university are some of obama's top contributors

clinton's top contributors goldman sachs, morgan stanley, microsoft, and emily's list (a group that elects pro-female candidates)

how clinton is spending the money

obama's contributions by geography

clinton's contributions by geography

look up by donor, zip code, state and candidate.

what does this tell you?

clinton gets $764,000 from lobbyists. casinos, banks, healthcare and HMOs, hedge funds, insurance, lawyers, oil and gas, pharmaceuticals, real estate, securities and investments, telephone, tv/nusic/movies, tobacco, computers sectors like clinton better than obama in terms of donations

obama gets $87,000 from lobbyists.

obama leads in two categories: education, retired donors.