Analysis: The geography of how early 2020 money is flowing
By Philip Bump Philip Bump National correspondent focused largely on the numbers behind politics Email Bio Follow May 9 at 5:06 PM One of the downsides to America’s interminable presidential elections is that, for those who really like politics, there are months spent poring over the same little data points looking for little tweaks and burbles that might augur some shift in where things are headed.
The overview looks like this. Circles on all of the graphs below are scaled to the total amount raised by the leading campaign committee in the county relative to the next-best-performing campaign.There’s an important point to be made about the data we’re using. Only some contributions are reportable to the FEC; small-dollar contributions often aren’t. That means that we generally have data on larger contributions only. That will be important later in this conversation.
FL. But it’s nothing compared to his dominance in Florida, where Trump raised a lot of money in a number of Zip codes relative to Sanders. There’s a similar pattern in Texas, where Sanders’s performance in cities is more noticeable. A key point here is that in places where Harris outraised Sanders, she did so by a wide margin. This, in part, comes back to the point about which contributions were reportable. Many of Sanders donors gave smaller amounts.
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