{"id":4507,"date":"2011-12-01T11:45:39","date_gmt":"2011-12-01T16:45:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/yimcatholic\/?p=4507"},"modified":"2017-01-24T18:18:30","modified_gmt":"2017-01-24T23:18:30","slug":"election-mania-2012-trivia-the-militarys-favorite","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/yimcatholic\/2011\/12\/election-mania-2012-trivia-the-militarys-favorite.html","title":{"rendered":"Election Mania 2012 Trivia: The Military’s Favorite?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>

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Election mania trivia: which candidate received the most in contributions from members of the military? Ron Paul, that\u2019s who. The photo above is current through the end of Q3, and the linked article here reports through Q2.<\/a><\/p>\n

Folks who took oaths to support and defend the Constitution of the United States<\/a> seem to be speaking with their very limited pocketbooks. The source of this not so top secret information? The Federal Election Commission<\/a>, of course. They divvy up sources of funds that every candidate receives by donors based on state, employer, zipcode, etc. Here is Ron Paul\u2019s campaign contributions listed by folks employers.<\/a><\/p>\n

Here\u2019s a few examples you can glean from this data. Let\u2019s use Goldman Sachs as an individual\u2019s identifying employer. Then let\u2019s put US Army as the employer next to that.<\/p>\n

Goldman Sachs\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0US Army<\/strong><\/p>\n

Ron Paul<\/a>: \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0$2500 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 $16093<\/p>\n

Mitt Romney<\/a>: \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0$54000 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0$500<\/p>\n

Rick Perry<\/a>: \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0$5500 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0$1250<\/p>\n

Herman Cain<\/a>: \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0$0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0$700<\/p>\n

Michelle Bachman<\/a>: \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 $0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 $0<\/p>\n

Rick Santorum<\/a>: \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 $0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 $0<\/p>\n

Newt Gingrich<\/a>: \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0$0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 $0<\/p>\n

Barack Obama<\/a>: \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 $1649 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 $2170<\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/p>\n

Update<\/strong>: Employees of Catholic organizations two favorite candidates.<\/a><\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Election mania trivia: which candidate received the most in contributions from members of the military? Ron Paul, that\u2019s who. The photo above is current through the end of Q3, and the linked article here reports through Q2.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":140,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[31,102],"class_list":["post-4507","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-living","tag-in-the-news","tag-politics"],"yoast_head":"\nElection Mania 2012 Trivia: The Military's Favorite?<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Election mania trivia: which candidate received the most in contributions from members of the military? Ron Paul, that's who. 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