Who Bought Your Politician? Check With Our Widget

Find out who's buying your politician.

Click the gray 'Select A Candidate' box at the top of the widget.

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Wired created the widget in conjunction with Maplight, the Berkeley, California-based nonprofit dedicated to following money and politics.

http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2012/10/wired-campaign-widget/

Widget lists the top 10 donors and their contributions to any member of the House and Senate, their opponents, and the presidential candidates.  Maplight pulls down up-to-date campaign-financing figures from the Federal Election Commission, which are fed into a database so the widget stays current.

The widget shows where candidates are ranked in terms of how much money they’ve raked in compared to their peers. It also shows how they rank among all federal candidates. Obama, for example, comes in first for presidential candidates, having garnered $201 million.  Mitt Romney, comes in with $150 million.

Goldman Sachs has given Romney nearly $544,000 - his top contributor.  The largest contributors to the president were government employees, at more than $2 million.

When we unveiled the original widget, we used it to produce a story about federal funding and a controversial helicopter — Follow the Money: Pork-Powered Pig Preps for Flight, which highlighted pay-to-play contributions to select politicians from defense firms hoping to win a contract to build the next Marine One, the president’s personal helicopter.

Comments

[SKINFLINT]

Thanks DB. Thats handy information right there.

[Cheyenne]

This thing is great!

I was messing around with it and remembered that Alan Grayson is running again, and it looks like he's got a comfortable margin in the polls. So as depressing as this election is, at least it looks like we're in for a few bankster disembowelments on the floor of the House. I really miss those.

[LadyLiberty]

Glad to see this posted as a stand alone!

[Anon]

THIS is why I'll be voting for Gary Johnson, Libertarian Candidate (IF I vote, at all):

(How is this any different than Obamney's Major Contributors?)
Ron Paul Top Ten Contributors from Jan 1, 2011 - Oct 28, 2012 More info
U.S. Government $405,584
Google $41,677
Microsoft $29,394
Lockheed Martin $26,899
Boeing $24,863
International Business Machines $22,347
Northrop Grumman $20,734
Oracle $20,105
U.S. Postal Service $18,916
Home $18,573

[go-go 1671]

Sad part--it does not account for the monies received for personnal use and family increases while in office. Known fact that after 1 1/2 terms most politicians become multi millionair$. Even theit teenage kids become filthy rich.