What does it all mean? Is Obama better for pharma? What do YOU think? Who do you intend to vote for?
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SOURCE: OpenSecrets.org
METHODOLOGY: The totals on these charts are calculated from PAC contributions and contributions from individuals giving more than $200, as reported to the Federal Election Commission. Individual contributions are generally categorized based on the donor's occupation/employer, although individuals may be classified instead as ideological donors if they've given more than $200 to an ideological PAC.
As any conscientious journalist would know - Sen. Obama's campaign does NOT accept PAC money - these are contributions from INDIVIDUALS in the pharmaceutical industry, not PACs - and your "methodology" does not make that at all clear.
ReplyDeleteFortunately, in America, individuals can still make choices that are not associated with any benefit for the industry they happen to work in.
Thanks for pointing this out.
ReplyDeleteAt the federal level, the primary source of campaign funds is individuals; political action committees are a distant second.
I'm just reporting it as presented by OpenSecrets.org, which also has a category for individual contributions by people working in the industry.
You should also mention that the McCain campaign benefits from PAC and individual money contributed to the Republican Governors Association. This gets around hard money limits imposed by accepting public funding.
P.S. I am not a "conscientious journalist." I am a blogger with a personal opinion. I do, however, try to give my readers multiple links to my sources of information.