I analyzed 2012 NY state presidential campaign contributions for my Data Science Visualization class

Here's what I learned:

1. Barack Obama got quadruple the number of donors than all Republicans combined, and there were 11 Republicans in total in the race.

2. Even though Obama got 4 times the number of donors, his total amount was only $6.5 million higher than the Republicans $51,381.561 to $44,858,263

3. Also, Obama had a much lower average donation amount than did Romney.

Final conclusion, Obama relied more on getting more donors donating small amounts whereas Romney relied upon a smaller base of donors giving larger amounts. Obama had to work much harder just to stay slightly ahead of Romney as far as NY state contributions.