[rayiner]

Note that Comcast, as a corporation, is prohibited from donating money to political campaigns: http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2014/04/07/supre....

OpenSecrets has been sweeping that disclaimer more and more under the rug, to the point where now I'd accuse them of lying.

[nitrogen]

A corporation being prohibited from donating is entirely irrelevant as we saw in the Sony leaks: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9392872

[deciplex]

Is this a matter of direct contributions versus PAC contributions?

[snowwrestler]

Corporations cannot donate money to campaigns at all, either directly or through PACs. A corporation can have a "captive" PAC whose expenses it can pay (for example, letting it operate out of their corporate offices), but all donations that pass through to a campaigh must come from individuals.

When you hear that "Company X gave money to candidates", what you're really hearing is "people who reported that they work for Company X gave money to candidates."