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bigtree

(86,005 posts)
Sat May 2, 2015, 05:45 PM May 2015

Hillary vs. Bernie >--- Top Donors

Ezra Klein @ezraklein

Hillary Clinton's top donors are banks.

Bernie Sanders' top donors are unions.


http://bit.ly/1IvkHe9




Maybe as applicable, but...

Campaign Finance Data for Martin O'Malley

$22,497,149 Received
...federal data covers from 1989 roughly through Q2 2014
state-level data is not available in bulk for 2014. for current state data, browse http://followthemoney.org/

Top Industries

OpenSecrets.org and FollowTheMoney.org classify contribution data into about 100 industries.

Real Estate $1,624,303
Lawyers/Law Firms $1,007,988
Securities & Investment $391,596
Business Services $390,912
General Contractors $345,526
Hospitals/Nursing Homes $298,950
Building Trade Unions $293,855
Construction Services $266,940
Health Professionals $261,186
Public Sector Unions $209,940


Individuals($14.1M)
PACs($8.3M)
Unknown($88.6K)


Top Contributors

Includes contributions from an organization’s employees, their family members and its political action committee.

BlankCarpenters & Joiners Union- $52,500
American Fedn of St/Cnty/Munic Employees Union -$49,700
Peter D Hart Research Assoc- $49,000
International Assn of Fire Fighters- $42,800
Service Employees International Union- $40,589
United Food & Commercial Workers Union- $40,250
Media Strategies & Research- $30,950
David S Brown Enterprises- $30,500
National Education Assn- $29,600



View all campaign finance data for Martin O'Malley
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Hillary vs. Bernie >--- Top Donors (Original Post) bigtree May 2015 OP
This used to be what a Republican vs Democratic candidate donor list would look like AZ Progressive May 2015 #1
Still is /nt Dragonfli May 2015 #3
:-) MuseRider May 2015 #4
zing Doctor_J May 2015 #12
Oh, snap! dflprincess May 2015 #14
Source? nt okaawhatever May 2015 #7
According to the post, Open Secrets and Follow the Money dflprincess May 2015 #15
Interesting contrast. Thanks, bigtree. nt Zorra May 2015 #2
Note individuals vs. PAC's Agschmid May 2015 #5
Bernie has never accepted corporate PAC money bigtree May 2015 #11
1st a Natinal Election isn't a state wide election in Vermont 2nd Bernie got all his money from PACs okaawhatever May 2015 #6
that is an honest unbiased post Motown_Johnny May 2015 #8
thought it was interesting to compare bigtree May 2015 #10
One more time salib May 2015 #9
Says it all! JDPriestly May 2015 #13

dflprincess

(28,082 posts)
15. According to the post, Open Secrets and Follow the Money
Sat May 2, 2015, 08:49 PM
May 2015

who get their information from the filings campaigns have to make.

Agschmid

(28,749 posts)
5. Note individuals vs. PAC's
Sat May 2, 2015, 06:29 PM
May 2015

This comparison is not a strong one, IMO.

Bernie has never run for a national office so of course his contributions will be different.

If I am going to stand for Bernie this likely won't be one of the reasons I do it.

bigtree

(86,005 posts)
11. Bernie has never accepted corporate PAC money
Sat May 2, 2015, 07:33 PM
May 2015

...I don't expect him to start now.

...the average donation to his campaign during the first quarter of 2014 was $28.95."

I'll bet that's not going to change much, either.

okaawhatever

(9,462 posts)
6. 1st a Natinal Election isn't a state wide election in Vermont 2nd Bernie got all his money from PACs
Sat May 2, 2015, 06:31 PM
May 2015

Hillary got the majority of her money from individuals. I guess you posted this dup thread because you didn't like the turn the other one had taken.

Why are you comparing apples & oranges? Why are you ignoring that the employees of the Wall St. firms are also her constituents?

Why won't you just present an honest un-biased post? Are you afraid of what the truth holds for your candidate? What this represents is that Bernie can't raise the big bucks. Look at how other Senators raised money.

bigtree

(86,005 posts)
10. thought it was interesting to compare
Sat May 2, 2015, 07:31 PM
May 2015

...I haven't made any conclusions.

You're free, as you've done, to make your own. Top donors... right there for all to view and compare.


(by the way, the other post was *stellar* - highly recommend it)

salib

(2,116 posts)
9. One more time
Sat May 2, 2015, 07:19 PM
May 2015

"The question to me is not whether we can raise as much money as our opponents — we can't — the question is whether we can raise enough money to run a strong, credible and winning campaign," Sanders said. "And based on this first day I believe that we can."

His numbers are smaller, yes. But they are in line with everything we believe in.

It is such a relief to have someone like this to contribute to, work for and vote for.

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