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Title: Military Personnel Campaign Funds Favor Obama Over Romney
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Bloomberg
URL Source: http://www.businessweek.com/news/20 ... -funds-favor-obama-over-romney
Published: Oct 16, 2012
Author: Laura Litvan
Post Date: 2012-10-16 18:46:58 by Brian S
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Views: 7772
Comments: 12
President Barack Obama has received almost twice as much in campaign contributions from U.S. military and Defense Department personnel as his Republican challenger Mitt Romney, despite Romney’s promises to boost defense spending and his criticism of military cuts set to take place in January. Obama has received $536,414 from such donors, compared with Romney’s $287,435, according to research by the nonpartisan Center for Responsive Politics in Washington. The group’s study, which includes data through August, looked at donations from individuals who listed their employment as the Defense Department or one of the branches of the military. Defense Department personnel led the list, giving $176,121 to Obama and $71,043 to Romney. Army personnel came in next with $165,646 for Obama and $87,218 for Romney. Obama’s advantage probably comes in part because some of the personnel are political appointees of his administration, said Peter Feaver, a political science professor at Duke University in Durham, North Carolina, who has studied military personnel and their impact on elections. “One party owns the executive branch right now, so the impact could be potentially quite large,” he said. Obama may also be winning a broader battle for support in an election that has seen both candidates “assiduously” court the military, he said. “It appears that he does have a small but energetic supporter base in the military,” Feaver said. Romney’s Promises The pro-Obama tilt comes even though Romney promises to boost defense spending to 4 percent of gross domestic product and to build 15 new Navy ships per year. He also is attacking Obama over $500 billion in across-the-board cuts to military programs over 10 years that begin January 2 unless a budget impasse with Congress is resolved in time. Earlier in the election cycle, military personnel donations were overwhelmingly tilted toward Republican hopeful Ron Paul, who called for less government and opposed the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, until Obama began to overtake him in March, the Center for Responsive Politics found. In the 2008 election cycle, the center found that Senator John McCain of Arizona, the Republican presidential nominee, took in slightly more in donations from military and Defense Department personnel, collecting $461,350 to Obama’s $450,950 through August of that year. Defense issues have taken on added importance in the presidential election this year, in part because Virginia -- the state most heavily reliant on defense dollars -- is a swing state that can go either way in presidential elections. An Oct. 12-14 American Research Group poll of 750 likely Virginia voters showed Romney barely ahead in the state, 48 percent to 47 percent. That’s well within the poll’s margin of error of plus or minus 4 percentage points.
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#1. To: Brian S (#0)
That is kind of like when the pretend President talked about him and Clinton creating 20 million jobs or whatever the number he made up was.
I haven't a clue of what the fuck you are talking about.
It is not easy reconstructing 'molded minds'...
In the debate the other night. Obama touted that him and Clinton created 20 some million job. He tried to inflate his number and take credit by adding Clinton.
On another matter. How confident are you Obama is going to win? More or less then a month ago? I'm certain Romney is going to win.
I'm not going to sugarcoat. The President is in big trouble...
It is not easy reconstructing 'molded minds'...
Well you also admit that he hasn't been a good President. That he lies a lot and is a demagogue? Might as well keep it honest and not sugar coat it.
Which means precisely dick. Military people support Ron Paul with their hard-earned dollars more than all the other candidates combined. You're dismissed, you pole-smokin' o'Bungler whore...
He helped our region with the auto bailout and I don't even think you can deny that plus the gop congress threw everything they had at him to block his agenda. But no, it is hard to explain his dismal, non-aggressive performance, not only in the last debate, but his entire Presidency. Would McCain have been better? Seriously...
It is not easy reconstructing 'molded minds'...
I honestly don't see how he has helped your region. By giving GM to the union instead of the people that were owed money. It would have just changed hands. Then they could have got rid of some of the ridiculous contracts that are smothering the great American company GM.
It sure as hell didn't help our city, they went ahead and closed a couple of GM factories and most of those people are still unemployed or moved elsewhere!!
“We have four boxes with which to defend our freedom: the soap box, the ballot box, the jury box, and the ammunition box.”
Then you are blind or a shill. Nothing more as I see you are spouting the party crib sheets. Debate up in 8m.... Tigers 0, Yanks 0 in the 3rd.
It is not easy reconstructing 'molded minds'...
and Defense Department
#2. To: A K A Stone (#1)
That is kind of like when the pretend President talked about him and Clinton creating 20 million jobs or whatever the number he made up was.
#3. To: Brian S (#2)
#4. To: Brian S (#2)
#5. To: A K A Stone (#4)
On another matter. How confident are you Obama is going to win? More or less then a month ago?
#6. To: Brian S (#5)
I'm not going to sugarcoat. The President is in big trouble...
#7. To: Brian S (#0)
President Barack Obama has received almost twice as much in campaign contributions from U.S. military and Defense Department personnel as his Republican challenger Mitt Romney...
"I am relying on my personal experience with Morons, which have been universally positive." -jwpegler
#8. To: A K A Stone (#6)
Well you also admit that he hasn't been a good President.
#9. To: Brian S (#8)
He helped our region with the auto bailout and I don't even think you can deny that
#10. To: A K A Stone, Brian S. (#9)
I honestly don't see how he has helped your region.
#11. To: A K A Stone (#9)
(Edited)
I honestly don't see...
#12. To: Brian S (#11)
Then you are blind or a shill.
"I am relying on my personal experience with Morons, which have been universally positive." -jwpegler
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