joe deaux is a reporter at thestreet.com. joe, we mentioned earlier the amount of money that is likely to be raised and spent by corporations this election cycle. are they taking sides with these campaign contributions? >> the idea after citizens united went through is that they were going to take sides and they were going to have this massive-- but what investors are starting to realize is that board members don't like to align themselves off when one party or one candidate. and shareholders of those companies are also pretty diversified and their own ideologies on things. so what we're seeing is that maybe these companies, though they now can contribute a lot of their own money from their, from their actual corporation, they're really not taking side as much as people might think. it is really individuals who are giving a lot of money to super pacs. >> maybe not the corporations but the individuals. you mentioned shareholders, there have been a lot of shareholder efforts over the last few years to try to force companies to