Money behind the American election

[Holden Caulfield]

to collect some data for a short work called
"from who, to who and why?"

could anybody give me some info or sources i could check out?

thanks

[Binary011]

You could start here for the election, Opensecrets.org

[JimmyJazz]

I just posted a facebook note about this:


"The Obama campaign is set to broadcast a half-hour commercial across three major US networks on Wednesday. The [single] ad, which will air on CBS, NBC and Fox at 2000 (midnight GMT) on the East Coast, could cost up to $6 million."

source: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/in_depth/americas/2008/vote_usa_2008/7694856.stm


"The cost of the last presidential campaign in 2004, considered a peak for its time, was 693 million dollars. Common estimates of this year's total outlay have tended to come in at around one billion dollars, and Fortune magazine recently upped its overall cost projection to three billion dollars. "

source: http://english.sina.com/world/1/2008/0115/141641.html

Obama's top campaign contributors were, in order:

University of California $909,283
Goldman Sachs $874,207
Harvard University $717,230
Microsoft Corp $714,108
Google Inc $701,099
JPMorgan Chase & Co $581,460
Citigroup Inc $581,216
National Amusements Inc $543,859
Time Warner $508,148
Sidley Austin LLP $492,445
Stanford University $481,199
Skadden, Arps et al $473,424
Wilmerhale Llp $466,679
UBS AG $454,795
Latham & Watkins $426,924
Columbia University $426,516
Morgan Stanley $425,102
IBM Corp $415,196
University of Chicago $414,555
US Government $400,819

source: http://www.opensecrets.org/pres08/contrib.php?cycle=2008&cid=N00009638


Hmm, Goldman Sachs, JPMorgan, Citigroup and Morgan Stanley. I wonder why he supported the bailout?? Time Warner...I wonder what his stance will be on private media monopolization (forgetting even the question of publicly vs. privately owned media)?

Also, see link in this op (http://www.revleft.com/vb/election-campaigns-u-t92880/index.html?t=92880)