The misleading numbers for Clinton's campaign donors were cooked up from contributions by individuals that were aggregated and listed under their employer's name.

Once again, a bold little propaganda piece is littering the neighborhood.

At first glance, it looks like a genuine side-by-side comparison of Hillary Clinton's "Top Ten Campaign Donors" versus Bernie Sanders' "Top Ten." The contrast leads to an obvious conclusion that fits like bullshit on a bumper sticker:

"She represents banks and corporations. He represents people."

The misleading numbers for Clinton's campaign donors were cooked up from contributions by individuals that were aggregated and listed under their employer's name.

98% of Clinton's campaign funds were donated by individuals.

98% of Clinton's campaign funds were contributions by individuals (the orange-shaded column) but their employer was listed as the donor. http://www.opensecrets.org/...

The figures were cherry-picked from the Center for Responsive Politics website, Open Secrets , where the same list of contributions is presented with details that show the amounts donated by individuals versus the amounts donated by PACs:Although 98% of Clinton's total was contributed by individuals, Open Secrets listed the amounts under the name of their employers. It’s an important point because it implies that the donations were directed by bank and corporation entities which would have been illegal.Clinton has always had strong support from labor unions . Open Secrets omitted their contributions entirely.

The Federal Election Commission website is the best source for campaign donation data which is available free to the public.

Easily retrievable records show labor union PAC donations that exceed the amounts listed by Open Secrets.

For example, the report at the link lists several independent expenditures over a million dollars for Clinton’s 2008 campaign.

$2,300,759.31 by the American Federation of State County & Municipal Employees

$1,784,808.59 by the American Federation of Teachers

$1,303,971.54 by Emily's List

Individual Contributions by Persons to campaign committees

Committee Contributions to candidate campaign committees

Independent Expenditures by PACs to support candidates

Rank 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 20 20 Contributor State, County & Municipal Employees State County & Municipal Employees - PEOPLE American Federation of Teachers American Federation of Teachers, Committee On Political Ed Emily's List Womencount PAC Machinists and Aerospace Workers Office and Professional Employees Union National Association of Letter Carriers New York's Health and Human Service Union Union of Painters and Allied Trades National Organization For Women PAC Amalgamated Transit Union Civil Service Employees The Denver Group Union of Bricklayers and Allied Craftworkers Letter Carriers Political Action Fund 80-20 PAC Buell, Susie T Bridge, Structural, Ornamental & Reinforcing Iron Workers Price Waterhouse Coopers PAC Union of Operating Engineers Local 68 Amount $ 9,256,392 $ 2,361,515 $ 1,981,247 $ 1,884,936 $ 1,474,449 $ 304,748 $ 258,105 $ 253,706 $ 150,365 $ 140,041 $ 73,460 $ 69,474 $ 68,104 $ 44,829 $ 37,296 $ 32,609 $ 26,941 $ 20,928 $ 20,636 $ 20,000 $ 20,000 $ 20,000

Rank 1 2 3 4 5 (tie) 5 (tie) 5 (tie) 5 (tie) 5 (tie) 5 (tie) 5 (tie) 5 (tie) 5 (tie) 14 (tie) 14 (tie) 14 (tie) 17 18 19 (tie) 19 (tie) 19 (tie) 19 (tie) 19 (tie) 19 (tie) 19 (tie) Contributor Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee Vermont Democratic Party Union of Operating Engineers Machinists & Aerospace Workers United Steelworkers Political Action Fund UNITE HERE Credit Union Legislative Action Council American Postal Workers Union International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers American Federation of Teachers Committee On Political Edn International Association of Firefighters National Association of Realtors Searchlight Leadership Fund Laborers' International Union United Transportation Union National Education Association Fund For Children/Public Ed Democratic Socialists of America PAC Teamsters Union Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners Service Employees International Union Sheet Metal Workers Transport Workers Union Naral Pro-Choice America PAC National Community Action Foundation Green Mountain PAC Amount $ 97,300 $ 49,996 $ 20,100 $ 20,083 $ 20,000 $ 20,000 $ 20,000 $ 20,000 $ 20,000 $ 20,000 $ 20,000 $ 20,000 $ 20,000 $ 18,000 $ 17,500 $ 17,500 $ 15,613 $ 15,500 $ 15,000 $ 15,000 $ 15,000 $ 15,000 $ 15,000 $ 15,000 $ 15,000

Here’s a list of Clinton’s Top 20 Contributors for her 2006 campaign for Senator and her 2008 campaign for President. The list was compiled from FEC downloads of:Here’s a list of Sanders Top 20 Contributors for his 2006 campaign for Senator and his 2012 campaign for Senator:

More than half of the donors who contributed to Sanders' campaigns also contributed to Clinton's. The Democratic Party donors at the top of his list are a surprise.

Where did the contributions from Wall Street PACs place?

Goldman Sachs was the biggest donor. It's $10,000 placed it in a tie at #71.

Bank of America's $6.000 donation placed at #164.

Morgan Stanley's $3,500 donation landed at #363.

