- 2008 Presidential Donations: Job titles of Donors – With thousands of donors for McCain and Obama, we wanted to analyze the types of people donating to each candidted by examining the top 250 job titles for each candidate and trying to determine how much influence they have on the overall donations viewed in our last data visualization.
Posts Tagged: FEC
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Nov 08
Daily Links for November 3rd
9
Apr 08
Justice Perverted
Well, in particular, this Mukasey claim is remarkable (fast-forward to 1:21):
Mukasey blubbers about how a missed phone call from a 9/11 Hijacker, if intercepted, could have stopped 9/11. Hamilton refutes this by essentially saying this is important, yet was not shared with the 9/11 Commission, implying one of three things:
- Mukasey was making it up for dramatic appeal.
- He was repeating something heard elsewhere, believing it to be true.
- Somehow, something quite important was suppressed from the 9/11 Commision.
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Nov 05
Free Press
Via Slashdot:
Dotnaught writes "The Federal Election Commission today issued an advisory opinion that finds the Fired Up network of blogs qualifies for the ‘press exemption’ to federal campaign finance laws. The press exemption, as defined by Congress, is meant to assure ‘the unfettered right of the newspapers, TV networks, and other media to cover and comment on political campaigns.’ The full ruling is available at the FEC site. A noteworthy passage: ‘…an entity otherwise eligible for the press exception would not lose its eligibility merely because of a lack of objectivity…’"
