There are only two ways to look at this data. Either Democrats are vastly more corrupt than Republicans or the U.S. Department of Justice is settling scores:
But the numbers for local cases paint a very different story. They found 309 investigations, broken down as follows:
- Democrats: 262
- Republicans: 37
- Independents: 10
Now isn't that odd? At the local level, even though both parties make up about half of all elected officials, Democrats get hammered and Republicans are left alone.