Party Competition and Industrial Structure in the 2012 Elections

http://www.nextnewdeal.net/party-competition-and-industrial-structure-2012-elections

Key Findings:

• Existing data sources used for studies of campaign finance have a variety of serious flaws.
• As a result, the degree to which major parties’ presidential candidates depend on very large donors has been underestimated and the role small donors play exaggerated.
• The relation between the money split between the parties and the proportion of votes received by their candidates in House and Senate races appears to be quite straightforward.
• Firms and executives in industries strongly affected by proposed regulations limiting greenhouse gas emissions heavily backed Mitt Romney. So did much, but not all, of finance.
• President Obama’s support within big business was broader than hitherto recognized. His level of support from firms in telecommunications and software was very strong indeed, sometimes equaling or exceeding Romney’s. Many firms and sectors most involved in the recent controversies over surveillance were among the President’s strongest supporters.
• Republican candidates showed sharply different levels of contributions from small donors; President Obama’s campaign, while heavily dependent on large donors, attracted more support from small donors than did his Republican opponent.
• Big business support for Tea Party candidates for Congress was substantial, but well below levels for more mainstream Republicans. Many of the same sectors that strongly supported Romney also backed Tea Party candidates. Backing for Tea Party candidates by Too Big To Fail banks ran above the average of business as a whole by every measure.

Read "Party Competition and Industrial Structure in the 2012 Elections: Who's Really Driving the Taxi to the Dark Side?", by Thomas Ferguson, Paul Jorgensen, and Jie Chen.

 

[SIDEBAR:   When criminally insane humans are criminally insane, we can see by how they are that the criminal insanity simply passes one evildoer onto the next and so on.  Drug addiction, POLY, was found via the United Nations' Report to be epidemic and in the USA, the POTUSES are mighty weird and the poisons of drugs around forever in controlling puppets for the ROTS-CHILD Agents that are now of course not just the agents for the so called ROYALS of world earth.]

>>CLICK>>
http://theartof12.blogspot.com/2013/10/two-wires-test-global-shit-with-respect.html

>>CLICK>>
http://theartof12.blogspot.com/2013/10/use-mind-human-beings-evolve-injust-us.html