As we close up a week wherein Sen. Barack Obama, D-Illinois, on the
stump and in a TV ad accused rival Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., of being
"in the pocket of big oil," and doing the industry's bidding -- not to
mention a week during which the Democratic National Committee launched
an Exxon-McCain '08 website
to drive home this Democratic talking point -- the non-partisan Center
for Responsive Politics points out that the issue is a bit more
complicated than it first would appear.
McCain has received three times more money from the oil industry in
general -- $1.3 million for McCain compared to approximately $394,000
for Obama. But that said, Obama has received more campaign cash than
McCain has from the employees of some of the biggest oil companies --
Exxon, Chevron and BP.
This might seem to complicate Obama's continual use of Exxon-Mobil on the stump.
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