Credit Cards

The chart above depicts the percent of contributions in U.S. Dollars donated to Republican and Democrat candidates/parties/affiliated groups, seeking national office during the 2020 election cycle, donated by employees, or owners, of the companies listed, and those individuals' immediate family members, based on data collected from www.opensecrets.org.

In some instances the money was possibly donated by the actual company, but the bulk of it typically comes from individuals within the company, or immediate family members of individuals within the company.  The only way I'm discussing the actual organization is if I reference it as "the organization itself", otherwise, I'm talking about the jargon mentioned above (individuals within the company, owners, employees, direct family, etc.).  In some instances, the money considered contributed may come from PACs affiliated with the mentioned organization. 

Ahhhh, we'll pay for it later!  Credit cards are not only issued by the five companies above, but those were the only 5 in the top ten that wasn't directly connected to the banks mentioned above.  So, if you look up top ten credit card companies, you'll find the five in the diagram above made the list, and then you'll also find Chase, Citi, Bank of America, Capital One, and Wells Fargo.  I already provided data on who those companies donated to, so I left them off of this chart.  

So let's look at these five companies a little more closely:

Democrats on the Left, Republicans on the Right! 

Visa $1,015,678  $551,454    

Mastercard $476,085  $225,370    

American Express $1,122,258  $548,601    

Discover $761,932  $157,766    

Synchrony $266,559  $250,872     

They all get F's except for Synchrony and Bank of America.  I'll give those folks a D-...