With a tip of my imaginary hat to opensecrets.org, here are the 15largest political contributors of the past 25 years (the list isactually much larger – the top 156 – and you can see it by clickinghere.)
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LEGEND: |
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= Between 40% and 59% to both parties |
Republican 
Democrat 
On the fence|
Rank |
Organization |
Total \’89-\’14 |
Dem % |
Repub % |
Tilt |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
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1 |
$102,652,175 |
99% |
0% |
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2 |
$61,819,629 |
80% |
1% |
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3 |
$58,970,590 |
56% |
4% |
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4 |
$57,024,350 |
41% |
57% |
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5 |
$55,558,528 |
41% |
44% |
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6 |
$45,572,151 |
91% |
2% |
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7 |
$45,254,315 |
53% |
44% |
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8 |
$41,920,628 |
71% |
0% |
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9 |
$41,577,299 |
71% |
9% |
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10 |
$38,699,798 |
84% |
2% |
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11 |
$38,401,420 |
83% |
7% |
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12 |
$37,271,575 |
89% |
0% |
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13 |
$36,472,773 |
86% |
0% |
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14 |
$36,355,957 |
88% |
5% |
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15 |
$35,116,206 |
47% |
51% |
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Notice a bit of a drift in the direction of one particular party? Me too.
Also, please note that, of the top 50 in opensecret.org\’s list,19 contributors give over 70% of their money to Democrats – 5give over 90% of their money to Democrats. By contrast, nocontributors at all give over 70% of their money toRepublicans.
Still think it is Republicans who get the big money from the bigorganizations?
If you happen to be Harry Reid, or one of the people he, hisparty, and their Accomplice Media have brainwashed, maybe the answeris yes. But the actual numbers tell a different story, don\’tthey?
