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Troops Deployed Abroad Give 6:1 to Obama - Capital Eye

Oliver Willis found this 8/14/2008 on opensecrets.org

During World War II, soldiers crouching in foxholes penned letters assuring their sweethearts that they'd be home soon. Now, between firefights in the Iraqi desert, some infantrymen have been sending a different kind of mail stateside: two or three hundred dollars -- or whatever they can spare -- towards a presidential election that could very well determine just how soon they come home. ...