The color of industries
Donations to candidates and candidate PACs
Political spending by donors’ industry
Donations to super PACs and outside spending groups
| Partisan industries | Democrat | Republican | % total industry |
| Industrial unions | $8,213,414 | $355,207 | 95.9 |
| Internet | 26,825,046 | 3,433,577 | 88.7 |
| Publishing | 27,887,021 | 4,452,566 | 86.2 |
| Building trade unions | 11,233,289 | 1,982,241 | 85 |
| Entertainment | 43,580,054 | 7,243,169 | 85.7 |
| Lawyers | 130,752,964 | 30,756,695 | 81 |
| Civil servants | 48,966,264 | 14,419,488 | 77.3 |
| Business services | 49,788,947 | 15,245,589 | 76.6 |
| Oil & gas | $6,977,878 | $39,026,468 | 84.8 |
| Building materials | 2,569,423 | 13,907,030 | 84.4 |
| Savings & loans | 204,540 | 1,049,993 | 83.7 |
| Trucking | 1,234,077 | 6,194,015 | 83.4 |
| Waste management | 585,803 | 2,573,977 | 81.5 |
| Home builders | 1,301,276 | 4,831,460 | 78.8 |
| Steel production | 692,643 | 2,455,425 | 78 |
| General contractors | 6,948,040 | 21,807,312 | 75.8 |
| Real estate | $25,481,522 | $17,838,799 | |
| Building trade unions | 55,882,976 | 2,363,351 | |
| Construction services | 2,447,535 | 475,514 | |
| General contractors | 1,586,545 | 1,208,244 | |
| Building materials and equipment | 290,288 | 1,629,863 | |
| Forestry and forestry products | 94,607 | 1,149,865 | |
| Commercial banks | 527,637 | 631,232 | |
| Finance, credit companies | 67,575 | 486,196 | |
| Special trade contractors | 139,370 | 431,884 | |
| Home builders | 115,254 | 380,861 | |
| Steel production | 36,005 | 62,090 |
