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The list is badly labeled. What it should be labeled is "employers of people who donate money to the candidates".

I'm flagging the submission, because although this kind of information is interesting, this is a very crappy presentation of it. For an example of a better presentation: http://www.opensecrets.org/pres12/index.php

You can read about it here: http://www.fec.gov/pages/brochures/pubfund.shtml

I believe the money in question comes from the organizations' employees, owners, and PACs not from the organizations directly.

Funny, in the rest of the world, this would be normal -> parties get funding from the government, no funding from private entities allowed.

People employed by the US government.