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Political Wire brings us some odd donor data:
Jon Hunstman, Sr., a businessman who is the namesake father of the Republican governor of Utah, last month gave the maximum $30,400 to the National Republican Senatorial Committee and the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee. His wife Karen also gave the maximum amount to both Senate campaign committees, which are partisan rivals in the 36 Senate contests that are on 2010 ballots.This shows, I guess, the neat corruption of modern fundraising. Huntsman's giving had no electoral effect. Zero. Donations to each side theoretically canceled each other out. But since the other side didn't know that, Huntsman got the political benefits that come with fundraising: Access or photo ops or phone numbers or whatever else.
