McCain Sports an Advantage Over Obama
By Don | August 15, 2008
John McCain has trailed Barack Obama in almost every fundraising category to date, but one group has been a shining light to the Arizona Senator.
From the Politico.
Sports team owners may not be John McCain’s answer to the Hollywood elite, but they’re overwhelmingly supporting his presidential campaign over Barack Obama’s.
Through the end of June, team owners in the four major sports and their families have given or raised more than $3.2 million to McCain, the presumptive Republican nominee, compared to only $615,000 to his Democratic rival Obama, according to a Politico analysis of data from the Federal Election Commission, the campaigns and interviews.
Not only did McCain raise more than Obama from the owners in each of the four major professional sports leagues analyzed, but McCain even raised six times more from the owners of teams in Obama’s hometown of Chicago.
Are owners voting with their pocketbooks? Under an Obama presidency the owners would undoubtedly pay more in taxes than they currently do and I can't imagine they are too excited about that.
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August 17 at 8:27 pm | #1 | Link
Who knows more about Obama than the Professional Sports entities? They have had more opportunity to observe his dealings amnd misdealings.
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