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I found this interesting "That money helped House Republicans win the majority in 2022. Though FTX has been portrayed as a Democratic firm, thanks to the high p

I found this interesting "That money helped House Republicans win the majority in 2022. Though FTX has been portrayed as a Democratic firm, thanks to the high profile of former co-CEO Sam Bankman-Fried, the company sprinkled around campaign donations fairly evenly, with a shade over 50 percent going directly to congressional Republicans and a shade under 50 percent to Democrats this cycle." Yet if you go to the actual link the article provides (https://www.opensecrets.org/orgs/recipients?id=D000073694&cycle=2022 https://www.opensecrets.org/orgs/recipients?id=D000073694&cy...) it shows a massive unbalance in the donations to PACs. How can the author claim the company sprinkled around campaign donations evenly yet link to a page that shows a massive unbalance the PACs section?

wellthatsawrap1 4y ago
Almost of the Republican dollars went to RINOs too. Specifically those that voted to impeach Trump so the whole bipartisan angle is bullshit.
- CogitoCogito 4y ago
  > Almost of the Republican dollars went to RINOs too. Specifically those that voted to impeach Trump so the whole bipartisan angle is bullshit. Roughly half the money went to Republicans, yet you say donations were _not_ bipartisan? Or am I misunderstanding you?
  - keneda7 4y ago
    Not who you quoted but roughly half the money did not go to Republicans. This article is either misleading or just wrong. The article links to opensecrets to support its claim. In that opensecrets link look under the PACs section (its the last section). The donations for the left add up to 44.8m and donations to the right add up to 23.2m. That is close to 100% more going to the left. Now take out the left's donations and we still have have 23.2m in donations from a company committing fraud. All 23.2m to the right and where it went needs to be investigated without question. However claiming roughly half the money went to the republicans is not true.
    - CogitoCogito 4y ago
      Okay that makes sense. But that seems like a different objection. Re-reading the post by /u/wellthatsawrap1, it looks like maybe the implicit claim there is that a RINO is not a Republican? In other words, the claim seems to be that a "Republican" is only someone Trump approves of? Frankly that's kind of insane.
      - keneda7 4y ago
        Ya I didn't bother replying to them. I haven't tracked the PAC donations but I would be utterly shocked if only non-trump supporting republicans benefitted from the 23m. I would wager many trump supporting republicans got lots of money. I think the donations had to do more with where influence could be bought (crypto/finance related committees) than what trump thought of the politician.
      - colejohnson66 4y ago
        > … maybe the implicit claim there is that a RINO is not a Republican? That is what a RINO is: “Republican in Name Only”. Basically, whenever a Republican does something that isn’t “towing the party line”, the ones that are towing it claim the former isn’t a real Republican; They’re a RINO.
    - blitzar 4y ago
      > The donations for the left add up to 44.8m and donations to the right add up to 23.2m Republicans are just cheaper to buy
xrd 4y ago
Where is the massive imbalance to PACs? I see a bunch of numbers associated with different PACs but I don't see a way to get a total by party. How did you do that?
- keneda7 4y ago
  So on the PACS table there is a button that says download CSV. Click that to download the list and then open it in excel (or sheets or whatever) and then sort by the view column. You then can use =sum() and add up to donations to each different view. I then combined the totals for like views (Conservative/Republican and Liberal/Democrat).

wellthatsawrap1 4y ago

Almost of the Republican dollars went to RINOs too. Specifically those that voted to impeach Trump so the whole bipartisan angle is bullshit.

CogitoCogito 4y ago
> Almost of the Republican dollars went to RINOs too. Specifically those that voted to impeach Trump so the whole bipartisan angle is bullshit. Roughly half the money went to Republicans, yet you say donations were _not_ bipartisan? Or am I misunderstanding you?
- keneda7 4y ago
  Not who you quoted but roughly half the money did not go to Republicans. This article is either misleading or just wrong. The article links to opensecrets to support its claim. In that opensecrets link look under the PACs section (its the last section). The donations for the left add up to 44.8m and donations to the right add up to 23.2m. That is close to 100% more going to the left. Now take out the left's donations and we still have have 23.2m in donations from a company committing fraud. All 23.2m to the right and where it went needs to be investigated without question. However claiming roughly half the money went to the republicans is not true.
  - CogitoCogito 4y ago
    Okay that makes sense. But that seems like a different objection. Re-reading the post by /u/wellthatsawrap1, it looks like maybe the implicit claim there is that a RINO is not a Republican? In other words, the claim seems to be that a "Republican" is only someone Trump approves of? Frankly that's kind of insane.
    - keneda7 4y ago
      Ya I didn't bother replying to them. I haven't tracked the PAC donations but I would be utterly shocked if only non-trump supporting republicans benefitted from the 23m. I would wager many trump supporting republicans got lots of money. I think the donations had to do more with where influence could be bought (crypto/finance related committees) than what trump thought of the politician.
    - colejohnson66 4y ago
      > … maybe the implicit claim there is that a RINO is not a Republican? That is what a RINO is: “Republican in Name Only”. Basically, whenever a Republican does something that isn’t “towing the party line”, the ones that are towing it claim the former isn’t a real Republican; They’re a RINO.
  - blitzar 4y ago
    > The donations for the left add up to 44.8m and donations to the right add up to 23.2m Republicans are just cheaper to buy

xrd 4y ago

Where is the massive imbalance to PACs? I see a bunch of numbers associated with different PACs but I don't see a way to get a total by party. How did you do that?

keneda7 4y ago
So on the PACS table there is a button that says download CSV. Click that to download the list and then open it in excel (or sheets or whatever) and then sort by the view column. You then can use =sum() and add up to donations to each different view. I then combined the totals for like views (Conservative/Republican and Liberal/Democrat).