Just an observation on that list, Steve. Adding up all the contributions to the various parts of both parties, I arrive at a total of $475,325,000. The current population of the U.S. (as of tonight) is 307,273,028. So the amount contributed to both political parties amounts to a buck and a half for every man, woman and child in the U.S. WikiAnswers.com tells us that the current number of households in the U.S. is 111,162,259. So every household in America, on average, made contributions to either the GOP or the Democrats of $4.27.

Just for the heck of it, let's see how "average" the participants of this forum are? How much did each of you contribute to either of the two major political parties? In my case, the number is zero.

I'm just wondering--if all of us turn out to be well below average with our funding of the political parties, then where do all those contributions come from? You wouldn't think that any of the corporate special interests might be trumping all of us with their contributions, would they?