Diligent daughter noticed something odd about the biggest political contributors. The biggest is George Soros, the insanely rich, muddle headed old fart who thinks that being nice to vicious people will make them nicer*. It might do that, but amount of improvement in their attitude will be negligible. You should stop being muddle headed, George. Anyway, Georgie gave $130 million to the Democrats.
The interesting part is who the second largest contributor is. That is Richard Uihlein of Uline Inc. with $80 million for the Republicans. Richard Uihlein of Uline Inc? Who the heck is that?
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Well, Uline rings a bell. Back when everybody was mailing out catalogs of products for sale I somehow got on a material handling mailing list. It was full of parts bins and packaging from - you guessed it - Uline. I guess the pandemic and Amazon conspired to really boost their sales.
* I really have no idea what is going on in Georgie's brain, but 3rd hand scuttlebutt has given me that impression.
P.S. I took the data on political contributions from Open Secrets and loaded it into a Google spreadsheet. The total amount of contributions tops $1 billion, $480 million to the Democrats and $680 billion to the Republicans. Once you have the data in a spreadsheet you can muck it around any number of ways. Over $700 million came from just three states: New York, Illinois and California.
Thanks for the spreadsheet, very interesting. The donor in 100th place is still giving $2¾ million. Both sides are spending $Billions on this election, some for campaign staff and consultants but the Lion's share goes to TV broadcasters. They're raking it in every other year.
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