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• THE MONEY: Perks for Biggest Donors, and Pleas for More Cash 

The Republican Party is poised to collect a post-convention windfall from corporate interests. A core group of business donors -- oil, tobacco, guns, real estate and software -- now form the financial backbone of the modern Republican Party. . .

Three of the Republican National Committee's 10 largest donors, Philip Morris, the National Rifle Association and Microsoft, have contributed record sums to the Republican Party this year at a time when they face legal and legislative assaults led by the Democrats. . .

A spokesman for Philip Morris, the Republican committee's largest single donor at $619,000 as of June 30, said that the company supports Republicans because they are "people who share similar views on issues that are important," including the regulation of tobacco.

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