Military Money Goes Democratic

5:56 pm EST September 13th, 2007 | Democrats | 7 Comments

I wonder why?

Since the start of the Iraq war in 2003, members of the U.S. military have dramatically increased their political contributions to Democrats, marching sharply away from the party they’ve long supported. In the 2002 election cycle, the last full cycle before the war began, Democrats received a mere 23 percent of military members’ contributions.* So far this year, 40 percent of military money has gone to Democrats for Congress and president, according to the nonpartisan Center for Responsive Politics.

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7 Responses to “Military Money Goes Democratic”

  1. SpiderJ says:
    September 13, 2007 at 10:11 pm

    Come, Oliver, you know why. It’s because the military is turning into a bunch of terrorist-appeasing defeatocrats!

    Oh how Rush and BillO and all the rest will bemoan how they are the last true Americans left.

  2. OxyCon says:
    September 13, 2007 at 10:14 pm

    Another George W. Bush success story.

  3. bryan says:
    September 13, 2007 at 10:41 pm

    Wanna win for the dems? Imply that the reps will be having a draft for Iraq if they win!

  4. fredfarkle says:
    September 13, 2007 at 11:34 pm

    Or we could try this headline:

    Sixty percent of all military donations still go to republicans!

    As opposed to Olivers yellow journalism one…

  5. Oliver Willis says:
    September 13, 2007 at 11:36 pm

    And that 60% is a lot less than what it was before the Iraq War. Facts don’t change just because you wrote something in a blog’s comments, you know.

  6. C.S.Strowbridge says:
    September 14, 2007 at 12:36 am

    Fredfarkle, a 17% change in one cycle is huge. Even someone as stupid as you must recognize that.

    By the way, the Republican earning the most acordin g to this study is Ron Paul. I don’t think he’s going to be big on the Campaign trail during the general election.

  7. SpiderJ says:
    September 14, 2007 at 9:50 am

    Fred here embodies glass-half-full–or glass 60% full, I guess–thinking to an utmost degree. I’m sure he’s also really peeved that nobody reports on the Iraqis and American soldiers who survived this week in Iraq, instead focusing on the “small price” of those who died.