Friday, October 27, 2006
A good businessman knows his market
Or perhaps it is just the smell of corporate CYA in the morning, but either way the NY Times is reporting a shift in corporate political donations as we approach Election Day.
Corporate America is already thinking beyond Election Day, increasing its share of last-minute donations to Democratic candidates and quietly devising strategies for how to work with Democrats if they win control of Congress.Big business usually has a good idea what their customers want. It is looking like the Republicans will need all the help they can get from Diebold to stay in DC and out of jail next year.
The shift in political giving, for the first 18 days of October, has not been this pronounced in the final stages of a campaign since 1994, when Republicans swept control of the House for the first time in four decades.
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