Percentage of donated money from troops to anti-war candidates

[Ardentfrost]

Here's the list that we were just asking about the other day.

Ron Paul leads ALL ‘08 candidates with over one-fourth of military contributions for Q2 » The Truth @ The Spin Factor

Ron Paul leads ALL ‘08 candidates with over one-fourth of military contributions for Q2

Earlier, we reported military contributions among Republican presidential candidates place Ron Paul on top at 49.5%, with nearly as much as all Republicans combined.

A more complete compilation of statistics by Phreadom shows that presidential candidate Ron Paul leads all 2008 presidential candidates in military contributions from the US Army, Navy, Air Force, Marine Corps and war veterans. Presidential candidate Ron Paul leads with an impressive one-fourth* of all contributions this second quarter according to newly released data from the FEC.

Ron Paul currently has more cash-on-hand than John McCain this quarter, and this new information is indicative of Ron Paul’s success. It appears that our soldiers and war veterans have an affinity to, or inclination for Ron Paul’s non-intervention principle - defending our homeland and pursuing terrorists, but no nation-building.

Ron Paul 26.23%
Barack Obama 24.02%
John McCain 18.31%
Hillary Clinton 11.08%
Bill Richardson 5.59%
Mitt Romney 4.05%
John Edwards 2.63%
Rudy Giuliani 2.44%
Mike Huckabee 1.84%
Tom Tancredo 1.63%
Duncan Hunter 1.05%
Joe Biden 0.84%
Mike Gravel 0.16%
Sam Brownback 0.07%
Dennis Kucinich 0.05%
Tommy Thompson 0%
Chris Dodd 0%
Jim Gilmore 0%
John Cox 0%

That is JUST Q2 of this year, but wow... John McCain is the closest with 18%, which makes sense considering his background, but the next highest pro-war guy on the list (Mitt) has 4%.

[motivez]

Interesting that about 70 percent of the donations are to anti-war candidates.

Support the troops by supporting their anti-Iraq-war position, eh?

[SoFlaJDM]

obama beating mccain? no wai!!!

[ballz2wallz]

I'd be curious to know what percentage of total military contributions go to anti-war candidates.

[motivez]

Originally Posted by ballz2wallz

I'd be curious to know what percentage of total military contributions go to anti-war candidates.

For Q2 of this year it's ~70% ..pretty telling.

[ballz2wallz]

Originally Posted by motivez

For Q2 of this year it's ~70% ..pretty telling.

Where did you get that figure from?

[motivez]

Originally Posted by ballz2wallz

Where did you get that figure from?

Adding up the percentages of the Q2 contributions in the original post?

[SoFlaJDM]

Originally Posted by motivez

Adding up the percentages of the Q2 contributions in the original post?