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Politics

Military Donations

By Matthew Yglesias
February 6, 2008

It looks like anti-war candidates Ron Paul and Barack Obama are getting the most campaign contributions from members of the military. I'm not sure exactly what that proves at the end of the day, but certainly it's a reminder that "the troops" are hardly marching in lockstep behind the Bush/McCain perpetual war agenda.