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DOING THE MATH.
Adam B. at Daily Kos provides some helpful number crunching on the presidential campaigns, including the surprising fact that John Edwards, not Barack Obama, is leading in the percent of campaign contributions that came from small donors (under $200) this year, though the difference between the two is minimal. Hillary Clinton trailed with just 13 percent lower-dollar contributions to Edwards' 31 percent and Obama's 28 percent. Obama led Edwards in the under $200 category for the first six months, however. The take-home: given an expected influx of more than $13 million in public funds for Edwards, all of the top three Democrats will have enough to compete in the early contests.
--Garance Franke-Ruta
COMMENTS (2)
Thanks for the link.
So there's no ambiguity, Obama has raised a lot more than Edwards or Clinton in terms of actual dollars from sub-$200 contributions -- $20.7M to $8.5M to $7.7M over the course of the campaign. During the third quarter, Obama raised about $4.4M from such donors, compared to $3.8 for Clinton and $3.1M for Edwards.
The reason Edwards' percentages shifted so much during this quarter is that he pretty much ran out of big donors -- raising only $352K from $2300+ contributors (i.e., about 150 people) and about $1.0M from the $1000-$2299 crowd. (Obama's numbers among those crowds -- $5.2M, $4.5M.)
Posted by: Adam B. | October 17, 2007 6:11 PM
Adam B. and Markos are upset at Edwards because he wouldn't buy them a chocolate fountain
They've got their priorities. And we've got ours.
Posted by: Petey | October 18, 2007 12:46 AM