Interesting look at the politics of bookdealers...

HuffPost is offering an interesting tool to look at campaign donations to various parties/candidates. Fundrace2008 taps into the public records database of campaign giving...and they have just created the ability to track donations by profession.

If you search (as above) "bookseller", you find that 234 people (with some duplication of names) have donated approximately $185,000. Is it surprising that $175,000 went to Obamarama and Co. and only $10,000 to the Republicans (and much/most of that to Ron Paul)?

It does not aggregate related "occupations", so you get different lists if you search "rare book dealer" or "bookdealer" or "book dealer" or "book seller", etc. Enjoy.

Thanks to Tom Congalton of Between the Covers Rare Books for the heads-up on this.