17 of 18 major companies in my dataset had more federal…
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17 of 18 major companies in my dataset had more federal PAC money going to Republicans than Democrats
I was digging through FEC data and ended up putting together a little tool to make this stuff easier to look at.
I looked at 18 large companies that had at least $250k in disclosed federal corporate/PAC disbursements. Across the available election cycles, 17 of the 18 had more going to Republican recipients than Democratic recipients.
Nike was the one exception, with about 76% going to Democrats.
Data is sorted by top 9 companies that leaned democratic, and top 9 companies that leaned republican, based on the % share of donations.
A few that surprised me:
* Coca-Cola: 75% Republican
* Delta: 68% Republican
* McDonald's: 66% Republican
* JPMorgan: 62% Republican
* Microsoft: 54% Republican
* GM: basically 50/50 (49/51)
This is federal money only, and I'm looking at disclosed PAC/corporate political disbursements. State/local spending isn't included.
I put the chart + methodology here: BuyAligned https://buy-aligned.com/insights/partisan-splits
Data is based on 2025 onwards, current through Sept. 13, 2026.
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#education
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I was digging through FEC data and ended up putting together a little tool to make this stuff easier to look at.
I looked at 18 large companies that had at least $250k in disclosed federal corporate/PAC disbursements. Across the available election cycles, 17 of the 18 had more going to Republican recipients than Democratic recipients.
Nike was the one exception, with about 76% going to Democrats.
Data is sorted by top 9 companies that leaned democratic, and top 9 companies that leaned republican, based on the % share of donations.
A few that surprised me:
* Coca-Cola: 75% Republican
* Delta: 68% Republican
* McDonald's: 66% Republican
* JPMorgan: 62% Republican
* Microsoft: 54% Republican
* GM: basically 50/50 (49/51)
This is federal money only, and I'm looking at disclosed PAC/corporate political disbursements. State/local spending isn't included.
I put the chart + methodology here: BuyAligned https://buy-aligned.com/insights/partisan-splits
Data is based on 2025 onwards, current through Sept. 13, 2026.
\[OC\]
#education
source
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