People like you and me.

Again, I implore you all to visit
http://www.opensecrets.org/overview/DonorDemographics.asp?cycle=2002
and see of all those willing to drop 100K+ which party they gave to.

These are individual donors.

Heck, go see where big money goes as well:

http://www.opensecrets.org/overview/topcontribs.asp?cycle=2002

Seems the top nine here are pretty solidly DNC

To be fair, this next group seems to be tilted a bit more to the GOP with more leaning or strongly GOP, but the GOP doesn't have a single "solidly GOP" (90% of contributions or better seem to categorize a group as solidly one party or another)

http://www.opensecrets.org/overview/industries.asp?cycle=2002

I've not done all the math, but I'm pretty sure the GOP gets it's fundraising advantage from the individual donors and not large corporate or wealthy patrons.

TB

"Seems like our society is more interested in turning each successive generation into cookie-cutter wankers than anything else." -- Jato 8/24/2004