Number of bundlers/lobbyist used or 2008 presidential candidates.

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Number of bundlers for 2008 presidential candidates: 2,382 Number of lobbyist bundlers for 2008 presidential candidates: 143 Amount raised by 2008 presidential candidates: $317,070,981

Barack Obama (D) Total Raised: $78,915,507 ************ Bundlers: 359 Lobbyist Bundlers: 10

Hillary Clinton (D) Total Raised: $78,507,181 ************ Bundlers: 322 Lobbyist Bundlers: 20

Rudy Giuliani (R) Total Raised: $44,559,299 ************ Bundlers: 225 Lobbyist Bundlers: 35

Mitt Romney (R) Total Raised: $43,999,833 ************ Bundlers: 345 Lobbyist Bundlers: 16

John McCain (R) Total Raised: $30,306,621 ************ Bundlers: 463 Lobbyist Bundlers: 58

John Edwards (D) Total Raised: $29,935,179 ************ Bundlers: 665 Lobbyist Bundlers: 3

Ron Paul (R) Total Raised: $8,200,347 ************ Bundlers: 0 Lobbyist Bundlers: 0

Mike Huckabee (R) Total Raised: $2,340,735 ************ Bundlers: 15 Lobbyist Bundlers: 1

Mike Gravel (D) Total Raised: $306,279 ************ Bundlers: 0 Lobbyist Bundlers: 0

A list of sources, like Washington Post, make these claims.

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[Anitius Severinus Boethius]

Term limits is the answer.

[Colofornian]

So McCain leads the way in lobbyist bundlers & is 2nd to him in bundlers?

And Romney has more bundlers and almost as many lobbyist bundlers as Hillary?

(Wow! It's a good thing lobbyists are running any of these campaigns, as we were assured by Romney a few weeks back)

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I don’t know if that will work. Obama is rather new (I think to Washington). He speaks money very well.

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Didn’t McCain said that he wanted to get rid of lobbiest (spelling) if he was president?

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Mike Gravel and Ron Paul did good!

[2ndDivisionVet]

I raised $45,000 for Fred, does that make me a bundler?

[Anitius Severinus Boethius]

It was sarcasm. Assuming no crossover (which is a very bad assumption, but one I am going with for this example), you have 2,537 people in Washington in this list that are movers and shakers who would never be affected by term limits.

Congressional staffers, lifetime bureaucrats, and lobbyists count in the tens of thousands of people who run Washington.

Preventing only 535 positions to be “term limited”, while allowing the tens of thousands of unelected positions to stay that the status quo does nothing to change Washington or the results we get from Washington.

That is why term limits are useless and in many ways counterproductive.

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I have no idea. I’m guessing it is people that what to get them in office (the good part) but what to take advantage once he is in there (the bad part). ‘I scratch you back if you scratch mine’ type of thing.

[gunnedah]

Obama said he would get rid of lobbyist and change the climate in DC.

[BGHater]

Wow, thats pretty cool Ron Paul has little Lobbyist support.

[WildcatClan]

I agree with you, term-limits wouldn’t be a solution and could make things worse. I can’t think of any better solution than an informed and far less gullible electorate. It is like these Congressman are political crack cocaine and the electorate can’t overcome the addiction. If they are rotten, don’t vote for them again.

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[BGHater]

Seen this thread? RP getting all the support from lobbyist. /s

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Ron Paul (R) Total Raised: $8,200,347 ************ Bundlers: 0 Lobbyist Bundlers: 0

But this can't be....I was told that Soros and Moveon.org was behind Paul's presidential run...

[Extremely Extreme Extremist]

I’m sure the Paul bashers will say that Code Pink is behind this website and is manipulating the data for Dr. Paul.

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