Guess Who Active Military Personel Favor?

Republicans like to create the false aura around them that the military will automatically favor them. Time and time again, Republican politicians, conservative media outlets, and right-wing pundits will use the military as a "stick" with which to beat their opposition with. They do this with the false hope that the military will back them up.

It appears that that the Republicans are in for a rude awakening.

During World War II, soldiers crouching in foxholes penned letters assuring their sweethearts that they'd be home soon. Now, between firefights in the Iraqi desert, some infantrymen have been sending a different kind of mail stateside: two or three hundred dollars -- or whatever they can spare -- towards a presidential election that could very well determine just how soon they come home.



According to an analysis of campaign contributions by the nonpartisan Center for Responsive Politics, Democrat Barack Obama has received nearly six times as much money from troops deployed overseas at the time of their contributions than has Republican John McCain, and the fiercely anti-war Ron Paul, though he suspended his campaign for the Republican nomination months ago, has received more than four times McCain's haul.

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