Voters and the presidential candidates are focused on the economy. But at least some voters -- and campaign contributors -- remember the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, the Axis of Evil and all that.

And in the view of some of them, Barack Obama has the edge. He might be more open to negotiating with foreign governments than John McCain, at least as a select group of donors sees it.

Donors listing their employer as the U.S. State Department have given $274,595 to Obama since the ca