Campaign Funding from Celebs

Its always been that Democrats received more campaign funding from celebrities than Republicans. How big is the difference between them? In Fox New article, it showed that 7 out of 10 dollars historically went to Democrats. A former Reagan White House aide Kenneth Khachigian says only half-jokingly that you can count the Republicans in Hollywood on your fingers.

Democrats on the other hand receives donations from a plethora of actors/actresses and producer/directors. Its almost like an Oscar fund raiser for them. It not different in this election, donations are still moving more towards the Democrats, and one reason is the Bush administration. There is an obvious dislike by the public on how the current administration is handling issues in the world, specifically Iraq. Still all candidates do receive a significant amount of donations to fund their campaigns.

I would think that producers would support the Republicans more because of Republican stance on big busiesses, and the movies are big businesses. Still, many of these candidates are already very wealthy and can easily fund themselves without donations.

-Arthur