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Top-donating corporate PACs favored GOP
CNN.com ^ | 11/24/04

Posted on 11/24/2004 3:21:55 PM PST by paudio

WASHINGTON (AP) -- The top-giving corporate political action committees didn't hedge their bets in the fall elections despite the narrow division between the GOP and Democrats in Congress.

They favored Republican candidates 10-to-1.

Of 268 corporate PACs that donated $100,000 or more to presidential and congressional candidates from January 2003 through the middle of last month, 245 gave the majority of their contributions to GOP hopefuls, according to an analysis released Wednesday by the nonpartisan Political Money Line campaign finance tracking service.

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TOPICS: Extended News; Government; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: agitprop; campaignfinance; cnn; dnc; dncplaybook; donors; false; fundraising; leftwing; lies; pac; propaganda; talkingpoints
Note that this is Corporate PAC, not the 527s. Also, look at the values: the biggest was only $208,000. Compared that with moveon.org, etc., that give millions to Kerry alone.
1 posted on 11/24/2004 3:21:55 PM PST by paudio
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To: paudio

At the opposite end of the spectrum, far more people cnntributed $20 dollars or less to Republicans than to Democrats.


2 posted on 11/24/2004 3:27:38 PM PST by bayourod (Don't Mess With West Texas Oil Field Trash)
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To: paudio

You want to see one sided bias and dollars that will stun you, look at what unions admit to giving to the dems.


3 posted on 11/24/2004 5:09:04 PM PST by Tacis (Kerry - You Can't Make A Silk Purse Out Of A Lazy, Lying, Elitist Scumbag!)
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