Reply #6: opensecrets.org shows this pretty well [View All]

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Whether it is good, bad, or indifferent depends on your perspective.

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The top industries supporting John Kerry are:
1 Lawyers/Law Firms $1,428,682
2 Securities & Investment $763,773
3 Real Estate $484,362
4 TV/Movies/Music $367,759
5 Business Services $359,019
6 Retired $339,204
7 Computer Equipment & Services $266,172
8 Insurance $245,525
9 Education $219,276
10 Misc Finance $206,925
11 Lobbyists $201,775
12 Commercial Banks $183,102
13 Health Professionals $168,426
14 Misc Manufacturing & Distributing $121,250
15 Printing & Publishing $120,554
16 Misc Business $99,764
17 Hospitals/Nursing Homes $96,715
18 Accountants $94,625
19 Telephone Utilities $92,572
20 Civil Servants/Public Officials $91,938



John Kerry is a top Senate recipient from the following industries for the 2001-2002 election cycle:
* Advertising & public relations services (#2)
* Alternate energy production & services (#5)
* Architectural services (#5)
* Book, newspaper & periodical publishing (#2)
* Business Services (#2)
* Cable & satellite TV production & distribution (#5)
* Civil Servants (#3)
* Commercial TV & radio stations (#2)
* Computer software (#2)
* Computers/Internet (#1)
* Education (#2)
* Foreign Policy (#3)
* Lawyers/Law Firms (#4)
* Lodging/Tourism (#4)
* Motion Picture production & distribution (#2)
* Pro-Choice (#5)
* Publishing (#3)
* Real Estate (#5)
* Recorded Music & music production (#4)
* Securities/Invest (#2)
* Telephone Utilities (#3)
* TV production & distribution (#1)
* TV/Movies/Music (#3)
* Venture capital (#1)

JOHN KERRY (D-MA)
Top Contributors

1 FleetBoston Financial $75,694
2 Verizon Communications $65,862
3 Mintz, Levin et al $54,700
4 Hill, Holliday et al $45,300
5 Raytheon Co $44,350
6 State Street Corp $41,400
7 AOL Time Warner $39,010
8 Vivendi Universal $38,754
9 Robins, Kaplan et al $36,350
10 Fidelity Investments $33,554
11 Harvard University $31,800
12 AT&T $30,700
12 Hale & Dorr $30,700
14 Credit Suisse First Boston $27,250
15 Gitto Global Corp $26,000
16 JP Morgan Chase & Co $25,500
17 Choate, Hall & Stewart $25,250
18 American International Group $24,900
19 John Hancock Financial Services $24,650
20 Goldman Sachs $24,500

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