Open Secrets has a list of Top Contributors to Federal Campaigns in the 2008 Election Cycle. If you drill down in the the Computers/Internet category, you will notice that the contributions seem to be favoring the Democrats, who have received 60% of the sectors contributions in this cycle. Looking back at 2006, it was 51% Democrats and 49% Republicans
Other stats of note:
- Total Contributions in 2006 Elections: $18.4M
- Total Contributions so far in 2008 Elections: $13M
- Top Contributor in 2008: Microsoft $900K
- Top Contributor in 2006: Microsoft $2.03 Million
- Microsoft’s Total Federal Contributions in 2006 ($2M) are about the same as the combined contributions of Dell, Intel, HP, IBM, Google, Yahoo, and Oracle. ($2,4M)
- Google has contributed more so far in 2008 ($389,712) than it did in the entire 2006 cycle ($288,987)
- Of the Top 20 Tech companies contributing to Federal Campaigns in 2008. Only 5 of them have favored the Republican Party in their contributions EMC (77%), Dell (61%), Compuware (72%), Perot Systems (90%), Intel (57%).
With the election cycle just getting started, I’m curious if these numbers mean we will see a much larger contributions from the technology sector in the 2008 election year.
I’m including some of the 2008/2006 data from Open Secrets bellow. Expect to see some more posts from me over the next few weeks, as John Mark and I do research for bytesfree.org as well as our upcoming presentation at LUG Radio Live USA 2008.
2008 Contributions to Date:
|
Rank |
Organization |
Amount |
|
|
Source |
|
1 |
Microsoft Corp |
$975,882 |
68% |
32% |
|
|
2 |
Cisco Systems |
$609,649 |
65% |
35% |
|
|
3 |
Google Inc |
$389,712 |
79% |
21% |
|
|
4 |
Hewlett-Packard |
$257,957 |
54% |
46% |
|
|
5 |
eBay Inc |
$257,500 |
56% |
44% |
|
|
6 |
IBM Corp |
$245,396 |
62% |
37% |
|
|
7 |
Intel Corp |
$218,416 |
43% |
57% |
|
|
8 |
Oracle Corp |
$209,613 |
72% |
28% |
|
|
9 |
EDS Corp |
$202,235 |
52% |
46% |
|
|
10 |
Yahoo! Inc |
$197,079 |
85% |
15% |
|
|
11 |
EMC Corp |
$185,580 |
23% |
77% |
|
|
12 |
eScription Inc |
$178,350 |
100% |
0% |
|
|
13 |
Dell Inc |
$172,270 |
39% |
61% |
|
|
14 |
Intuit Inc |
$171,812 |
69% |
30% |
|
|
15 |
Technet |
$161,645 |
69% |
31% |
|
|
16 |
Compuware Corp |
$152,215 |
28% |
72% |
|
|
17 |
Symantec Corp |
$127,697 |
83% |
17% |
|
|
18 |
Perot Systems |
$116,425 |
10% |
90% |
|
|
19 |
ProLogic Inc |
$112,650 |
93% |
7% |
|
|
20 |
Progeny Systems |
$110,750 |
68% |
32% |
Dems
Repubs
Indivs
PACs
Soft $2006 Contributions to Date:
|
Rank |
Organization |
Amount |
|
|
Source |
|
1 |
Microsoft Corp |
$2,030,142 |
56% |
43% |
|
|
2 |
Cisco Systems |
$680,717 |
62% |
36% |
|
|
3 |
Siebel Systems |
$663,750 |
10% |
89% |
|
|
4 |
Intel Corp |
$514,664 |
37% |
61% |
|
|
5 |
Dell Inc |
$392,352 |
19% |
81% |
|
|
6 |
Hewlett-Packard |
$336,142 |
43% |
53% |
|
|
7 |
IBM Corp |
$320,945 |
61% |
35% |
|
|
8 |
Google Inc |
$288,987 |
91% |
9% |
|
|
9 |
Yahoo! Inc |
$283,388 |
62% |
37% |
|
|
10 |
Oracle Corp |
$279,645 |
35% |
64% |
|
|
11 |
Prologic Inc |
$258,150 |
84% |
16% |
|
|
12 |
eBay Inc |
$244,969 |
46% |
54% |
|
|
13 |
EDS Corp |
$238,165 |
39% |
60% |
|
|
14 |
Unisys Corp |
$224,485 |
32% |
64% |
|
|
15 |
Achievement Technologies |
$214,300 |
99% |
1% |
|
|
16 |
SAP America |
$205,194 |
36% |
63% |
|
|
17 |
Computer Sciences Corp |
$205,004 |
36% |
64% |
|
|
18 |
EMC Corp |
$203,983 |
26% |
72% |
|
|
19 |
Progeny Systems |
$203,875 |
71% |
29% |
|
|
20 |
SI International |
$198,575 |
9% |
91% |
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