Military donations favor Obama over McCain

Didn't McCain say something in the debate about knowing and loving veterans, and wanting to take care of them? Maybe the soldiers don't believe him.... he has been kind of difficult to understand lately.

Troops donate more campaign money to Obama than McCain, despite McCain's military record

WASHINGTON (AP) -- U.S. soldiers have donated more presidential campaign money to Democrat Barack Obama than to Republican John McCain, a reversal of previous campaigns in which military donations tended to favor GOP White House hopefuls, a nonpartisan group reported Thursday.

Troops serving abroad have given nearly six times as much money to Obama's presidential campaign as they have to McCain's, the Center for Responsive Politics said.

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I'd heard rumors that soldiers were favoring Obama this year, but the numbers shock me - active soldiers are giving money at a rate 6:1 in favor of a democrat. Remarkable. As in I'm remarking upon it.

Course, when the Disabled American Veterans give McCain a 20 percent approval rating vs an 80 percent rating for Obama, and the Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans of America give Senator McCain a grade of D in comparison to Obama's B-plus, maybe the discrepancy isn't so surprising.