"Hillary Clinton Scores with Republican Donors"

[berniepdx420]

by Eric Zuesse

An analysis of Federal Election Commission records, by TIME, shows that the 2012 donors to Mitt Romney’s campaign have been donating more to Hillary Clinton’s 2016 campaign than they have been donating to the campaign of — listed here in declining order below Clinton — Lindsey Graham, Rand Paul, Carly Fiorina, Chris Christie, Rick Perry, Mike Huckabee, Donald Trump, Bobby Jindal, Rick Santorum, George Pataki, Martin O’Malley, Jim Web, Jim Gilmore, or Lawrence Lessig.

Clinton is the only Democratic candidate who is even moderately attractive to big Republican donors.

In ascending order above Clinton, Romney’s donors have been donating to: John Kasich, Scott Walker, Ben Carson, Marco Rubio, Ted Cruz, and Jeb Bush. The top trio — of Bush, Cruz, and Rubio — have, together, received about 60% of all the money donated this time around, by the people who had funded Mitt Romney’s 2012 drive for the White House.

So: the Democrat Hillary Clinton scores above 14 candidates, and below 6 candidates. She is below 6 Republican candidates, and she’s above 11 Republican candidates.

This means that, in the entire 17-candidate Republican field, she drew more Republican money than did any one of 11 of the Republican candidates, but less Republican money than did any one of 6 of them. So, if she were a Republican (in what would then be an 18-candidate Republican-candidate field for 2016), she would be the 7th-from-the-top recipient of Romney-donor money.


Hillary Clinton, therefore, to Republican donors, is a more attractive prospect for the U.S. Presidency than is 64% of the current 17-member Republican field of candidates.

http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2015/10/hillary-clinton-scores-with-republican-donors.html

[mgmaggiemg]

1. remember when bernie was getting

that huge boost in donations after iowa/nh? I advise you write the republicans thank-you notes

[Bucky]

3. Yes, Republican bundlers are notorious for their $30 donations

[mgmaggiemg]

4. your profile made me laugh

I get that whole "I want a pony" thing...I am old enough to be realistic...so I just want to keep the GOP out of office....and so I don't get as emotional as the Bernie people...I think we can have our cake and eat it too with HRC in the white house and bernie and warren in the congress....

[frylock]

5. Yeah, that's what I'd say too.

$30 bundlers.

[mgmaggiemg]

6. yep ;) cheers, Maggie

[Dragonfli]

2. Well, She is the best Republican running, smart move by them to always have a Republican

running as a wink, wink "New" Democrat on the other side during elections.

It has proven most effective at getting their big money, big war policies passed.

Running someone in each party, gotta admit it is brilliant of them.