It’s Election Day, and despite millions of voters having already cast their ballots, it still feels like anything could happen. Since 2000, the prime-time nature of our electoral system seems to align with that of a Seahawks game—a scattershot, nonsensical series of occurrences often leading to an ending that vacillates between pleasantly surprising and downright horrifying depending on your viewpoint.
For heavy hitters donating money, though, the significant lifting has already been done. They have placed their bets over the past two years and thanks to our (somewhat, maybe, sort-of) transparent donor reporting process, we can see a picture of where most of the NFL’s power players opted to spend their capital heading into arguably the most consequential Presidential election in modern times.