I did some analysis of contributions to each candidate by industry using data from opensecrets.org. See the datasets "Top Political Donors" and "Campaign Contributions - 2008 Presidential Election".
“Top political Donors” shows how partisan the top 101 largest campaign contributors are defined by how much money the give to each party.
"Campaign Contributions - 2008 Presidential Election" shows campaign contributions for each of the presidential candidates. I've done some more advanced work on my website which shows the change in contribution patterns by selected industries, but that requires some more advanced pivoting features in Excel which I haven’t found on Swivel.
And Natalie, I have no idea who I'm going to vote for other than not a Republican, this coming from a dedicated "South Park Republican”.
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