Congressional candidates from the Midwestern states of Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Michigan, Minnesota, Nebraska, North Dakota, South Dakota and Wisconsin pulled in big donations from a variety of insurance industry interests in 2008, according to the Center for Responsive Politics, a nonpartisan independent research group that tracks contributions in U.S. political elections.
Illinois Senator and now President-elect Barack Obama received the largest contribution in the Midwest, $1,512,257. The industry, however, contributed almost twice that amount to John McCain (R-AZ), $2,047,696.
Incumbent Senator Norm Coleman, a Republican from Minnesota, whose high profile win against comedian and Democrat Al Franken, in a contest that ended in a recount, received the largest contribution from the insurance industry, $291,747. The next largest contribution went to Pat Roberts (R-Kansas), $132,500. Tim Johnson (D-SD) came in with $127.586. Johnson’s contributions almost exceeded that of the powerful Illinois Senator Dick Durbin (D-IL) who received $128,750 in industry contributions.
Nationally, the total contribution from insurance industry sources came to $38.2 million during the 2008 election cycle.
The following table lists House and Senate candidates from the Midwestern states who received campaign contributions from insurance industry sources.
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