{"id":4160,"date":"2008-02-01T16:16:21","date_gmt":"2008-02-01T23:16:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/2008\/02\/01\/republicans-in-the-military-support-the-antiwar-candidate\/"},"modified":"2008-02-02T08:36:43","modified_gmt":"2008-02-02T15:36:43","slug":"republicans-in-the-military-support-the-antiwar-candidate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/2008\/02\/01\/republicans-in-the-military-support-the-antiwar-candidate\/","title":{"rendered":"Republicans in the Military Support the Antiwar Candidate"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>According to the <a href=\"http:\/\/query.nictusa.com\/pres\/2007\/YE\/\">fourth quarter reports<\/a>, the majority of military contributors supported Ron Paul, the one antiwar candidate in the Republican primaries.<\/p>\n<p>Ron Paul received <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lewrockwell.com\/blog\/lewrw\/archives\/019092.html\">more contributions from servicemembers<\/a> than the other three remaining GOP candidates:<\/p>\n<p>Ron Paul &#8211; 1349<br \/>\nMcCain &#8211; 413<br \/>\nRomney &#8211; 140<br \/>\nHuckabee &#8211; 99<\/p>\n<p>And the Dems:<br \/>\nObama: 466<br \/>\nClinton: 181<\/p>\n<p>This follows <a href=\"http:\/\/www.outsidethebeltway.com\/archives\/2007\/10\/ron_paul_leads_military_donations_race\/\">the same trend<\/a> that was set in the second and third quarters of last year.<\/p>\n<p><strong>UPDATE<\/strong>: Ron Paul also received more total money from military contributors than all the Democratic candidates combined, or all the Republicans combined.  Here are the totals in dollars for each candidate:<\/p>\n<p>Ron Paul $392,721.00<br \/>\nBarack Obama $124,234.00<br \/>\nJohn S McCain $106,309.00<br \/>\nHillary Clinton $75,258.00<br \/>\nFred Thompson $58,373.00<br \/>\nMike Huckabee $47,376.00<br \/>\nMitt Romney $43,332.00<br \/>\nRudolph Giuliani $23,430.00<br \/>\nBill Richardson $21,175.00<br \/>\nJohn Edwards $20,711.00<br \/>\nJoseph Biden $10,940.00<br \/>\nDuncan Hunter $9,820.00<br \/>\nThomas Gerald Tancredo $7,200.00<br \/>\nSamuel Dale Brownback $3,606.00<br \/>\nDennis J Kucinich $2,952.00<br \/>\nChristopher J Dodd $1,098.00<br \/>\nMike Gravel $970.00 <\/p>\n<p><em>Thanks to Tex McRae and Jeff Shulman.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to the fourth quarter reports, the majority of military contributors supported Ron Paul, the one antiwar candidate in the Republican primaries. Ron Paul received more contributions from servicemembers than the other three remaining GOP candidates: Ron Paul &#8211; 1349 McCain &#8211; 413 Romney &#8211; 140 Huckabee &#8211; 99 And the Dems: Obama: 466 Clinton: [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[676],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-4160","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-antiwar-movement"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"meta_box":{"disable_donate_message":"","custom_donate_message":"","subtitle":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4160","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4160"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4160\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4160"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4160"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4160"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=4160"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}