On Fri 25 Oct, DaZZa bloviated thus:

> If you add up all the amounts M$ have donated to the US political arena in
> the last 2 years, you get more than 1.8 million dollars.

There's also significant amounts paid by Microsoft employees.
(there's a search you can do on donators' employer)

Note that there is also a big amount of "soft money" in the US which
is harder to track down.  According to that same site, they spent
US$1.9 million in the 2002 election cycle.

If you're wondering where the Australian version of this lives, see:
http://search.aec.gov.au/annualreturns/

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