{"id":24312,"date":"2014-02-17T09:42:21","date_gmt":"2014-02-17T14:42:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=24312"},"modified":"2014-02-17T09:43:21","modified_gmt":"2014-02-17T14:43:21","slug":"theres-a-lot-of-money-in-us-politics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2014\/02\/17\/theres-a-lot-of-money-in-us-politics\/","title":{"rendered":"There&#8217;s a lot of money in US politics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/campaign-spot\/371275\/biggest-all-time-donors-american-politics-are-jim-geraghty\" target=\"_blank\">Jim Geraghty<\/a> included this table in a blog post about the biggest contributors to the two major US political parties, and it&#8217;s rather shocking. This is the list of top donators from 1989 to 2014:<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/US-political-contributions-1989-2014.jpg\" alt=\"US political contributions 1989-2014\" width=\"514\" height=\"480\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-24313\" srcset=\"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/US-political-contributions-1989-2014.jpg 514w, https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/US-political-contributions-1989-2014-150x140.jpg 150w, https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/US-political-contributions-1989-2014-480x448.jpg 480w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 514px) 100vw, 514px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Clearly, there&#8217;s a need to get big corporations out of the political game. <em>Two of them<\/em> are in the top ten, and <strong>three<\/strong> are in the top 15. Oh, and two of them actually gave more money to the Republicans than the Democrats! When will they reform the system to prevent this kind of distortion to the political process?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jim Geraghty included this table in a blog post about the biggest contributors to the two major US political parties, and it&#8217;s rather shocking. This is the list of top donators from 1989 to 2014: Clearly, there&#8217;s a need to get big corporations out of the political game. Two of them are in the top [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[53,13],"tags":[768,188,517],"class_list":["post-24312","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","category-usa","tag-democrat","tag-electionwatch","tag-republican"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-6k8","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24312","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24312"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24312\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24315,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24312\/revisions\/24315"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24312"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24312"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24312"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}