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Neato, but I'm not sure I'm
Neato, but I'm not sure I'm convinced. While I appreciate the underlying issue here, and I definitely realize it is important to keep an eye on these things, I wonder about this representation. Corporate campaign contributions can just as easily be read as a barometer of expectations: expectations of which nominee a party will choose, but also of which party will win the election (see this article for one example of this argument). So, one glance at this graph suggests that Giuliani (who, as everyone knows by now, just left the race) is most beholden to oil money. But couldn't it just as easily reflect the fact that for a long time he was the Republican frontrunner? And ditto for Hillary Clinton? It looks nice, but the underlying data has to be more complex than this.