You can’t sell your vote but they can buy it: Billions in aid go to areas that backed Obama in ‘08
http://www.usatoday.com/news/washington/2009-07-08-redblue_N.htm
Billions of dollars in federal aid delivered directly to the local level to help revive the economy have gone overwhelmingly to places that supported President Obama in last year’s presidential election.
That aid — about $17 billion — is the first piece of the administration’s massive stimulus package that can be tracked locally.
Much of it has followed a well-worn path to places that regularly collect a bigger share of federal grants and contracts, guided by formulas that have been in place for decades and leave little room for manipulation.
Counties that supported Obama last year have reaped twice as much money per person from the administration’s $787 billion economic stimulus package as those that voted for his Republican rival, Sen. John McCain, a USA TODAY analysis of government disclosure and accounting records shows.
It’d be interesting to see a more in depth study done on these facts. I was expecting a discrepancy due to the likely greater enthusiasm that the Democrats would earmarking the so called stimulus money but twice as much seems excessive.
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