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MistressNew -> RE: Troops give 6 times as much money to Obama (8/14/2008 12:16:20 PM)
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ORIGINAL: Sanity Statistics can be fun, you can twist them around to say anything. These, for example - were compiled during the primaries, and the money was distributed among all the primary candidates who were running, and the Republicans had a far larger field which split the contributions up. According to your source, all contributions for Republican from troops overseas totaled 76,037 dollars vs. 63,882 dollars for all Democrats. Total troop contributions for Republicans was $849,219 vs. $519,459 for Democrats. Or, to look at it another way, the two most prominant anti-war candidates got 106,000 while the next top five candidates scored 33,000. It wasn't meant to be a democrat v. republican thing. It was meant to be a the-troops-want-this-stupid-war-to-be-over thing.
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