An interesting infographic showing how different interests represented according to the political contributions. The US Senate is dominated by the Big Money and the lawyers (see the key below the charts). The Congress is ruled by the Labor and Big Money. (via motherjones.com What if members of Congress were seated not by party but according to their major business sponsors?)
The Senate
The House of "Representatives"
Don’t understand why the lump the Money and the Real Estate together. Same with the lawyers and the lobbyists.
We might be an “information economy” but the Telcos just get a seat in the Senate. The agriculture might be just one percent of the economy (whatever) but they get the respectable three seats in the senate and twenty-three in the House. The Doctors are holding on to the 3rd place in both chambers. Education and Science are not even on the map. They would have to be summoned in the interest of the other seated donors only. So does everyone else.
For an infographic geek like me it would be telling to see the same graph after the upcoming election.
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I would expect after the ruling in Citizens vs. Federal Election Committee that a chart like this will look quite different after the upcoming election, but I’m not sure how. I just would think that the new influx of larger amounts of corporate campaign money would change the picture.
As the article reports, there is no much difference between republicans or democrats on this chart. Except there probably would be less Labor in the future House.