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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsHillary 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 organizations 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
AZ Progressive
(3,411 posts)Dragonfli
(10,622 posts)That SHOULD leave a mark, but Teflon is tough stuff.
dflprincess
(28,082 posts)okaawhatever
(9,462 posts)dflprincess
(28,082 posts)who get their information from the filings campaigns have to make.
Zorra
(27,670 posts)Agschmid
(28,749 posts)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)...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)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.
Motown_Johnny
(22,308 posts)it seems you can't recognize one when you see it
bigtree
(86,005 posts)...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)"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.