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09-08-2008 01:56 AM |
http://www.factcheck.org/elections-2...oil_spill.html
https://youtube.com/watch?v=e84X7pjJWZk
https://youtube.com/watch?v=NgEHc...eature=related
http://firstread.msnbc.msn.com/archi...28/834887.aspx
Through June, Exxon employees have given Obama $42,100 to McCain?s $35,166. Chevron favors Obama $35,157 to $28,500, and Obama edges out McCain with BP $16,046 vs. $11,500. McCain leads the money race with nearly every other top giver in the oil and gas industry, though ? Koch Industries, Valero, Marathon Oil, Occidental Petroleum, ConocoPhillips, the list goes on. (You can see detail on all these companies in the spreadsheet linked below.) McCain also has a big edge with Hess Corp. ? $91,000 to Obama?s $8,000 ? which has gotten some attention. And, overall, McCain?s campaign has gotten three times more money from the industry than Obama?s has ? $1.3 million compared to about $394,000.
Comparing Obama?s and McCain?s financial ties to the oil industry, there?s no question that McCain has benefited more from the industry?s contributions, just as his Republican Party has for years and years. But Obama?s edge with the oil producers Americans know best ? and might be cursing most these days ? makes it harder for him to continue to tar McCain as the industry?s darling.
And it goes on and on and on...the fact is everyone takes money from Big-Oil.
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