If you look at the bar graph on the Open Secrets website you will see that up to the year 2000, AIG gave both political parties in the Arrogant Incompetent Congress (AIC) equally. This makes sense because if both parties more or less share power equally a corporation wants to hedge its bet. Only in the year 2002 did AIG gave more money to the Republicans than to the Dems. After that year only the Dems got more bribes--er I mean contributions more than Republicans.
Who got the contributions? In 2008 including the House and Senate, 54 Dems got contributions, and 38 Republicans got contributions. Here are some of the people that got bribes contributions from most to least:
| Barack "the Messiah" Obama | $104,332 |
| Chris Dodd | $103,900 |
| John McCain | $59,499 |
| Hillary Clinton | $37,965 |
| Mitt Romney | $20,850 |
| Joseph "Hair plugs" Biden | $19,975 |
| Rudolph Giuliani | $13,200 |
| Dick "Turban" Durbin | $11,000 |
| Charles Rangel | $9,000 |
| John Edwards | $7,850 |
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