Clinton and Obama Raiding Donors Who Backed Bush

[Gloria]

Yes, it's the NY Sun.....Question is, is the analysis accurate, even if done by the CRP....Fed. Election Comm data should tell the tale....
Sorry if this is a dupe...

http://www.nysun.com/article/53420

Clinton and Obama Raiding Donors Who Backed Bush

By JOSH GERSTEIN
Staff Reporter of the Sun
April 30, 2007


As senators Clinton and Obama crisscross the country seeking the Democratic presidential nomination and sharply criticizing President Bush, they have been collecting hundreds of thousands of dollars from donors who funded one or both of Mr. Bush's campaigns for the White House.

In the first quarter of this year, more than 150 former Bush donors pitched in for Mrs. Clinton's campaign, while a similar number anted up for Mr. Obama, according to an analysis of Federal Election Commission data performed for The New York Sun by the Washington-based Center for Responsive Politics.

The motives of those who lend financial support to candidates with divergent views are difficult to assess. For some donors, personal ties to politicians or their top fund-raisers transcend partisan politics. Executives at businesses susceptible to government regulation regularly straddle the field, even supporting multiple candidates in the same race. Some contributors find that their politics change over time or that the politicians they formerly supported failed to follow through on their promises.

On occasion, donors aim to undermine a politician they oppose by supporting a rival they also oppose but view as less of a threat. In 2004, an independent presidential candidate, Ralph Nader, got a wave of large donations from die-hard Republicans who seemed to believe that his presence in the race could siphon support from Mr. Bush's Democratic opponent, Senator Kerry of Massachusetts.

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[MrModerate]

1. The monied ones are beginning to smell the winners . . .

Their antennae are out and their gravitating toward those who will be in a position to do them some good, post-November 2008.

Not an entirely positive development, but still satisfying in its own way.

[Gloria]

2. Sorry, this is a dupe. the other thread resurfaced after I posted....

[NightWatcher]

3. Let's here it for the DLC, aka Republican Lite

Bash me for my anti-Hillary views, but this is what I am afraid of. It all started when she and Rupert Murdoch got together. I dont know enough about Obama to have an opinion.
The corporations who own the republicans will try to buy the democrats, that is the democrats that they do not already own as well.
We are a corporatocracy posing as a democratic republic.

[The Magistrate]

4. This 'Began' Sir, Before The Days Of Julius Caesar

People pay money to politicians for two reasons: to avoid harm and secure favors. Money given to losers is wasted, so people take care to contribute to the person and party with the best chance of victory. This sort of thing is simply recognition in monied circles that the Republican party is looking like a loser next year.

The so called "Murdoch fund-raiser" is a particularly poor thing to use as a base for the ludicrous charge that bad woman Sen. Clinton somehow began the phenomenon of money abandoning losers in political life. Murdoch hosted an event at which staff in the Fox offices in New York City donated money to Sen. Clinton, and almost all the attendees were registered Democrats, as are most people in that city.