Monday, September 15, 2008

Tracking campaign finance

The BBC has some interesting graphs Tracking campaign finance of Obama and McCain. Obama has raised and spent a lot more than McCain.

Of particular interest is the breakdown by industry. While a lot are pretty even there are a few industries where one candidate has gotten close to all of the donations. For Obama these are healthcare, education, civil servants, TV/movies/music, computers/internet, and he has a significant leads in lawyers and business services. The only blow out for McCain is oil & gas and he has a lead with the retired, which is by far the most generous "industry".

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

The lead in lawyers struck me. So even if he doesn't "win" the election, he can always out litigate his competition.