Who do US government employees donate to? Take a look at the chart below.
This chart shows the number of donors who donated between $200 and $4600 to 2008 Presidential candidates. Data is from OpenSecrets.org
Interesting isn't it?
First, a bit of explanation about how I compiled the data. I searched the opensecrets donor list for employer names which started with "US". This data lists the top donors employed by the US government I then snipped each of the 20 available pages into a spreadsheet, classified each donation into 1 of 5 classes and plotted the results. These are the classifications I used:
1 Administration - Misc government employees
2 Department of Justice
3 US military
4 Department of State
5 Not a government agency, (or works in a Senate or House office)
We draw a few conclusion from the data.
*_ The vast majority of the donations go to Democrats (Hillary and Barrack)
*_ US Military employees are heavy donors
*_ The only republican to receive substantial donations from the military is Ron Paul!
The data is available here as a Google spreadsheet