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2016 Postmortem
Related: About this forumClinton and Trump Get Most of Their Campaign Funds from These 250 Neighborhoods
AUTHOR: JOANNA PEARLSTEIN
DURING MONDAY NIGHTS presidential candidate debate, Republican nominee Donald Trump lamented his opponents advertising spending. I also noticed the very nasty commercials that you do on me in so many different ways, he said to Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton, which I dont do on you. Maybe Im trying to save the money. Maybe so. Clinton is, in fact, outspending Trump on advertising. Partially thats because she has raised a lot more money.
At the end of August, according to the Federal Election Commission, the Trump campaign had raised $75 million, while Clintons had taken in $289.3 million.
Where does the Clinton campaigns money come from? Silicon Valley, for sure. But put Clintons donors on a map and you see a broader picture.
The FEC, which compels political candidates to file regular reports on their fundraising and expenditures, provides data on funding by zip code in addition to tracking donations by employer and state. For the month of August, the 10 zip codes sending the most funding to Clinton are all on the east coast: eight in New York City, one in Washington DC, and one in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Last month we reported that Clinton took in lots of cash from the west side of Manhattan, and this month the trend continues: Clinton drew $364,000 from four West Side neighborhoods in August. Republican nominee Donald Trump, by contrast, raised that amount from his top 32 zip codes.
https://www.wired.com/2016/09/clinton-trump-get-campaign-funds-250-neighborhoods/?mbid=social_twitter
Clinton donations come from Metropolitan areas, which are more socially and racially diverse and with more educated individuals and Trump's donations are spread all over the mostly white boonies...
I'm not surprised at all.
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Clinton and Trump Get Most of Their Campaign Funds from These 250 Neighborhoods (Original Post)
MrScorpio
Sep 2016
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longship
(40,416 posts)1. I see that my home town, Detroit, figures prominently.
That is very good!
Sancho
(9,070 posts)2. Amazing how much Hillary gets from Texas...
MrScorpio
(73,631 posts)3. DFW/Austin/Houston
No surprise there.
frazzled
(18,402 posts)4. Doesn't it make sense
That larger population centers yield the most donations? And that the largest ones are more blue than the medium-sized cities and towns?
In other words, doh. Density matters.